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Hardcover. Condizione: Very Good. 2009 OUP hardcover edition. Unread copy in very good condition. From the cover: In recent decades, the analysis of causal relations has become a topic of central importance in analytic philosophy. More recently, dispositional properties have also become objects of intense study. Both of these phenomena appear to be intimately related to counterfactual conditionals and other modal phenomena such as objective chance, but little work has been done to directly relate them. Dispositions and Causes contains ten essays by scholars working in both metaphysics and in philosophy of science, examining the relation between dispositional and causal concepts. Particular issues discussed include the possibility of reducing dispositions to causes, and vice versa; the possibility of a nominalist theory of causal powers; the attempt to reduce all metaphysical necessity to dispositional properties; the relationship between dispositions, causes, and laws of nature; the role of causal capacities in explaining the success of scientific inquiry; the grounding of dispositions and causes in objective chances; and the type of causal power required for free agency. The introductory chapter contains a detailed overview of recent work in the area, providing a helpful entry to the literature for non-specialists. Contents List of Contributors 1. The Metaphysics of Dispositions and Causes - Toby Handfield 2. Dispositions, Causes, and Reduction - Jennifer McKitrick 3. Causal Structuralism, Dispositional Actualism, and Counterfactual Conditionals - Antony Eagle 4. Leaving Things to Take their Chances: Cause and Disposition Grounded in Chance - Stephen Barker 5. Causal Laws, Policy Predictions, and the Need for Genuine Powers - Nancy Cartwright 6. How is Scientific Analysis Possible? - Richard Corry 7. Agent-Causal Power -Timothy O'Connor 8. Structural Properties Revisited - Alexander Bird 9. Causal Nominalism - Ann Whittle 10. Why do the Laws Explain Why? - Marc Lange References Index.…

Hardcover. Condizione: As new. Philosophy and Medicine Volume 90. ix, 236, [4] p. 25 cm. 6 tables and 1 figure. Hardcover. Topics include: normality, disease and enhancement; holistic theories of health as applicable to non-human beings; disease and supervenience; defining "disease;" race and scientific reduction; genetic disease; why disease persists; creating mental illness in non-disordered community populations; gender identity disorder; clinical trials as nomological machines; social epistemology of NIH consensus conferences; maternal agency and the immunological paradox of pregnancy; violence and public health; taking equipoise seriously. Indexed.…

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Hardcover. Condizione: new. Hardcover. Jennifer McKitrick offers an opinionated guide to the philosophy of dispositions. In her view, when an object has a disposition, it is such that, if a certain type of circumstance were to occur, a certain kind of event would occur. Since it is very common for this to be the case for a variety of reasons, dispositions are very abundant and diverse. They include such varied properties as character traits like a hero's courage, characteristics of physical objectslike a wine glass's fragility, and characteristics of microphysical entities like an electron's charge. Some dispositions are natural while others are non-natural. Some dispositions called "powers" areungrounded while non-fundamental dispositions are grounded in other properties. Some dispositions manifest constantly, some of them manifest spontaneously, while others manifest only when they are triggered to do so. Some dispositions manifest by causing another dispositional property to be instantiated, while others have manifestations that involve non-dispositional properties and relations. Some dispositions are intrinsic to their bearers while others are extrinsic. Some of them arecausally relevant to their manifestations while others are not. Some dispositions manifest in some particular way in particular circumstances, while other dispositions manifest in various ways in variouscircumstances. What makes all of these diverse properties dispositions is their connection to a certain kind of counterfactual fact. Nevertheless, disposition ascriptions are not semantically reducible to counterfactual claims. Jennifer McKitrick offers an opinionated guide to the philosophy of dispositions. In her view, when an object has a disposition, it is such that, if a certain type of circumstance were to occur, a certain kind of event would occur. Since this is very common for this to be the case, dispositions are an abundant and diverse feature of our world. Shipping may be from multiple locations in the US or from the UK, depending on stock availability.…

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Taschenbuch. Condizione: Neu. Druck auf Anfrage Neuware - Printed after ordering - Medicine has been a very fruitful source of significant issues for philosophy over the last 30 years. The vast majority of the issues discussed have been normative - they have been problems in morality and political philosophy that now make up the field called bioethics. However, biomedical science presents many other philosophical questions that have gotten relatively little attention, particularly topics in metaphysics, epistemology and philosophy of science. This volume focuses on problems in these areas as they surface in biomedical science. Important changes in philosophy make biomedical science an especially int- esting area of inquiry. Contemporary philosophy is largely naturalistic in approach - it takes philosophy to be constrained by the results of the natural sciences and able to contribute to the natural sciences as well. Exactly what those constraints and contributions should be is a matter of controversy. What is not controversial is that important questions in philosophy of science and metaphysics are raised by the practice of science. Physics, biology, and economics have all drawn extensive phi- sophical analysis, so much so that philosophical study of these areas have become specialized subdisciplines within philosophy of science. Philosophy of medicine approached from the perspective of philosophy of science - with important exc- tions (Schaffner, 1993; Thagard, 2000) - has been relatively undeveloped. Nonetheless, medicine should have a central place in epistemological and metaphysical debates over science.…

Buch. Condizione: Neu. Druck auf Anfrage Neuware - Printed after ordering - Medicine has been a very fruitful source of significant issues for philosophy over the last 30 years. The vast majority of the issues discussed have been normative - they have been problems in morality and political philosophy that now make up the field called bioethics. However, biomedical science presents many other philosophical questions that have gotten relatively little attention, particularly topics in metaphysics, epistemology and philosophy of science. This volume focuses on problems in these areas as they surface in biomedical science. Important changes in philosophy make biomedical science an especially int- esting area of inquiry. Contemporary philosophy is largely naturalistic in approach - it takes philosophy to be constrained by the results of the natural sciences and able to contribute to the natural sciences as well. Exactly what those constraints and contributions should be is a matter of controversy. What is not controversial is that important questions in philosophy of science and metaphysics are raised by the practice of science. Physics, biology, and economics have all drawn extensive phi- sophical analysis, so much so that philosophical study of these areas have become specialized subdisciplines within philosophy of science. Philosophy of medicine approached from the perspective of philosophy of science - with important exc- tions (Schaffner, 1993; Thagard, 2000) - has been relatively undeveloped. Nonetheless, medicine should have a central place in epistemological and metaphysical debates over science.…

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Taschenbuch. Condizione: Neu. Establishing Medical Reality | Essays in the Metaphysics and Epistemology of Biomedical Science | Harold Kincaid (u. a.) | Taschenbuch | Philosophy and Medicine | vii | Englisch | 2010 | Springer | EAN 9789048173129 | Verantwortliche Person für die EU: Springer Verlag GmbH, Tiergartenstr. 17, 69121 Heidelberg, juergen[dot]hartmann[at]springer[dot]com | Anbieter: preigu.…

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