A Powerful Particulars View of Causation - Rilegato

Libro 18 di 22: Routledge Studies in Metaphysics

Ingthorsson, R.D.

 
9780367486297: A Powerful Particulars View of Causation
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ISBN 10: 0367486296 ISBN 13: 9780367486297
Casa editrice: Routledge, 2021

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This book critically examines the recent discussions of powers and powers-based accounts of causation. The author then develops an original view of powers-based causation that aims to be compatible with the theories and findings of natural science.

Recently, there has been a dramatic revival of realist approaches to properties and causation, which focus on the relevance of Aristotelian metaphysics and the notion of powers for a scientifically informed view of causation. In this book, R.D. Ingthorsson argues that one central feature of powers-based accounts of causation is arguably incompatible with what is today recognised as fact in the sciences, notably that all interactions are thoroughly reciprocal. Ingthorsson’s powerful particulars view of causation accommodates for the reciprocity of interactions. It also draws out the consequences of that view for issue of causal necessity and offers a way to understand the constitution and persistence of compound objects as causal phenomena. Furthermore, Ingthorsson argues that compound entities, so understood, are just as much processes as they are substances.

A Powerful Particulars View of Causation will be of great interest to scholars and advanced students working in metaphysics, philosophy of science, and neo-Aristotelian philosophy, while also being accessible for a general audience.

The Open Access version of this book, available at http://www.taylorfrancis.com/books/9781003094241, has been made available under a Creative Commons Attribution-Non Commercial-No Derivatives 4.0 license.

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Informazioni sull?autore

R. D. Ingthorsson is an Associate Professor in Philosophy at the University of Helsinki, Finland.. He is the author of McTaggart’s Paradox (Routledge, 2016) and co-editor of Mental Causation and Ontology (2013).

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Editore
Routledge
Data di pubblicazione
2021
Lingua
Inglese
ISBN 10 
0367486296
ISBN 13 
9780367486297
Rilegatura
Copertina rigida
Numero edizione
1
Numero di pagine
208
Contatto del produttore
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Persona responsabile
gpsr@libri.de
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ISBN 10:  0367555980 ISBN 13:  9780367555986
Casa editrice: Routledge, 2023
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