Powers: A History 1st Edition

Powers: A History 1st Edition – Ebook Instant Download/Delivery ISBN(s): 9780190925512,0190925515,9780190925543, 019092554X

Product details:

• ISBN-10: 019092554X
• ISBN-13: 9780190925543
• Author: Julia Jorati

Why does a wine glass break when you drop it, whereas a steel goblet does not? The answer may seem obvious: glass, unlike steel, is fragile. This is an explanation in terms of a power or disposition: the glass breaks because it possesses a particular power, namely fragility. Seemingly simple, such intrinsic dispositions or powers have fascinated philosophers for centuries. A power’s central task is explaining why a thing changes in the ways that it does, rather than in other ways: powers should explain why an acorn turns into an oak tree, not a sunflower, or why fire burns wood, and wood can catch fire.

Table contents:

Chapter 1: Causal Powers in Aristotle and his Predecessors

Chapter 2: Platonic and Stoic Powers

Chapter 3: Emanationist Powers: Plotinus, Theology of Aristotle, and Ibn Gabirol

Chapter 4: The Power of Possibility: Power, Nature and Possibility in Avicenna

Chapter 5: Causal Powers in the Latin Christian West

Chapter 6: Causal Powers and Ontology in Descartes

Chapter 7: The Power of Self-Motion in Cavendish’s Nature

Chapter 8: ‘Plastick powers’ and the Power of Sympathy in Cudworth and More: The Spirit of Nature and Plastic Nature

Chapter 9: Powers in Britain, 1689-1827

Chapter 10: The Metaphysics of Powers in Kant and Hegel

Chapter 11: Powers in Contemporary Philosophy

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