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ISBN-10 :  0192642766 

ISBN-13 :  9780192642769

Author: Benjamin Hill 

Causal powers are returning to the forefront of realist philosophy of science. Once central features of philosophical thinking about the natures of substances and causes, they were banished during the early modern era and the Scientific Revolution. In this volume, distinguished scholars revisit the fortunes of causal powers as scientific explanatory principles within the theories of substance and cause across history. Each chapter focuses on the philosophical roles causal powers were thought to play at the time, and the reasons offered in support, or against, their coherence and ability to perform these roles. By placing rigorous philosophical analyses of thinking about causal powers within their historical contexts, features of their natures which might remain hidden to contemporary practitioners can be more readily identified and more carefully analyzed. The thoughts of such prominent philosophers as Aristotle, Scotus, Ockham, and Buridan are explored, then on through Suarez, Descartes, and Malebranche, to Locke and Hume, and ultimately to contemporary figures like the logical positivists Goodman and Lewis.

Reconsidering Causal Powers: Historical and Conceptual Perspectives 1st Table of contents:

1. The History of the Powers Debate
2. Summary of Contributions
3. Questions for Moving Forward
1. The Inherence and Directedness of Powers
1. Powers: Directedness versus Inherence
2. The Marks of Aristotelian Powers
3. Powers in Potency versus Powers in Act
4. The Relativity of Powers
5. The Directedness of Powers
6. The Duality of Powers
7. The Distinction between Inesse and Esse-ad
8. Powers: Real but Not Distinct
2. Powers, Possibilities, and TimeNotes for a Programme
1. Scotus, Ockham, and Auriol’s Principle
2. Modality and Time
3. Scotus and Ockham Again
4. Conclusion
3. Aristotelian Powers, Mechanism, and Final Causes in the Late Middle Ages
1. Aristotle and Powers as Goal-directed
2. A Medieval Mechanism
3. Powers and Final Causality in Ockham and Buridan
4. Buridan on Powers as Dispositions
5. Conclusion
4. Agency, Force, and Inertia in Descartes and Hobbes
1. La Forge on Force and Inertia
2. Laws and Tendencies
3. Force and Potentiality
4. Real Tendencies and Final Causes
5. Hobbes on Tendency and Motion
6. Stalemate Cases
7. The Mind’s Tendencies to Move Matter
8. Conclusion
5. The Ontological Status of Causal Powers: Substances, Modes, and Humeanism
1. From Hume back to Locke
2. Seventeenth-century Occasionalism
3. Conclusion
6. The Case against Powers
1. The Moderns’ War on Powers
2. Independence and Intrinsicality
3. The Problem of Fit
4. Power Holism
5. Locks and Keys
6. The Positive View
7. Conclusion
7. The Return of Causal Powers?
1. The Rejection of Substantial Forms and Causal Powers
2. The Role of Laws and Dispositions in Scientific Practice
3. Revitalization
4. Conclusion
8. Qualities, Powers, and Bare Powers in Locke
1. What Kind of Distinction is the Primary/Secondary Quality Distinction?
2. How Should we Define and Delimit Primary Qualities?
3. From Primary Qualities to Secondary Qualities
4. The Ontology of Secondary Qualities
9. Hume on Causation and Causal Powers
1. Key Points of Hume’s Theory of Causation
2. Reductionism, Subjectivism, and Projectivism
3. Hume and Causal Powers
10. Resurgent Powers and the Failure of Conceptual Analysis
1. Reducing Dispositions in the Twentieth Century: a Guide for Beginners
2. Counterexamples to the Simple Counterfactual Analysis
3. Sophisticated Counterfactual Analyses
4. Beyond Semantic Reduction
11. Causal Powers and Structures
1. Metaphysical Background
2. Objections to this Ontology
3. What are Physical Causal Processes?
4. The Laws of Action of the Causal Powers
5. Categorical Realism
6. Knowledge of Categorical Properties
7. Positive Account of Powers and Structures
12. Induction and Natural Kinds Revisited
1. A Metaphysical Starting Point
2. Reliabilism and Enumerative Induction
3. The Charge of Circularity
4. Hilary Kornblith on Induction
5. Brian Ellis on Natural Kinds
6. My Approach
7. The Circularity Objection Again
8. A Further Objection
9. Conclusion

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