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2021
Causal powers are returning to the forefront of realist philosophy of science. They were once central features of philosophical thinking about the natures of substances and causes but were banished during the early modern era and the Scientific Revolution.
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Causal powers are returning to the forefront of realist philosophy of science. They were once central features of philosophical thinking about the natures of substances and causes but were banished during the early modern era and the Scientific Revolution.
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2017
This collection brings together new and important work by both emerging scholars and those who helped shape the field on the nature of causal powers, and the connections between causal powers and other phenomena within metaphysics, philosophy of science, and philosophy of mind.
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This collection brings together new and important work by both emerging scholars and those who helped shape the field on the nature of causal powers, and the connections between causal powers and other phenomena within metaphysics, philosophy of science, and philosophy of mind.
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Philosophical Papers, 2016
AbstractThis paper proposes that the relation between property instances and token causal powers is akin to the relation between primary substances and property instances on the Aristotelian account of property instantiation. This view permits an individual to have two tokens of the same type of causal power.
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AbstractThis paper proposes that the relation between property instances and token causal powers is akin to the relation between primary substances and property instances on the Aristotelian account of property instantiation. This view permits an individual to have two tokens of the same type of causal power.
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2018
Science concerns not only discovery about the world but also has an application and allows us to change the world through technology. Technology can be understood in terms of uncovering causal powers and using them. Powers are thus the grounds of real possibility that are to be used in technological development.
Rani Lill Anjum, Stephen Mumford
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Science concerns not only discovery about the world but also has an application and allows us to change the world through technology. Technology can be understood in terms of uncovering causal powers and using them. Powers are thus the grounds of real possibility that are to be used in technological development.
Rani Lill Anjum, Stephen Mumford
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Quality and Quantity, 1974
The article first establishes the conceptual link between power and causality. It then attempts to review the literature on power from the causal modelling perspective. The implications of seeing power as a slope and a constant relationship are developed: the advantages of Harsanyi's measure of power are discussed as well as weaknesses in the ...
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The article first establishes the conceptual link between power and causality. It then attempts to review the literature on power from the causal modelling perspective. The implications of seeing power as a slope and a constant relationship are developed: the advantages of Harsanyi's measure of power are discussed as well as weaknesses in the ...
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2019
This chapter investigates the ontology of causal power and causal influence that was suggested by the discussion of reductive explanation in the previous two chapters. In particular, it is suggested that we should understand causal powers to be dispositions to manifest causal influence. Such powers, it is shown, can be given a conditional analysis that
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This chapter investigates the ontology of causal power and causal influence that was suggested by the discussion of reductive explanation in the previous two chapters. In particular, it is suggested that we should understand causal powers to be dispositions to manifest causal influence. Such powers, it is shown, can be given a conditional analysis that
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2021
Brian Ellis provides a detailed and systemic overview of his version of dispositional essentialism. Ellis is famous for having developed and defended a mixed ontology for scientific realism. This is a robustly Aristotelian ontology that involves a mix of categorical and essentially dispositional properties inhering as universal in individualized ...
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Brian Ellis provides a detailed and systemic overview of his version of dispositional essentialism. Ellis is famous for having developed and defended a mixed ontology for scientific realism. This is a robustly Aristotelian ontology that involves a mix of categorical and essentially dispositional properties inhering as universal in individualized ...
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2009
Abstract Our universe is populated, at bottom, by a vast number of partless particulars of a few basic kinds. Each of these particulars instantiates some of a small range of primitive qualities and stands in primitive relations with other particulars.
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Abstract Our universe is populated, at bottom, by a vast number of partless particulars of a few basic kinds. Each of these particulars instantiates some of a small range of primitive qualities and stands in primitive relations with other particulars.
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Philosophy of Science, 1994
Owens (1993) argues that a tension exists between our commonsense view of mental states and the scientific view that psychological explanations not contradict supervenience. He suggests that one cannot accept the anti-individualistic conclusions of Twin-Earth thought experiments and continue to use folk psychological states to explain behavior. I argue
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Owens (1993) argues that a tension exists between our commonsense view of mental states and the scientific view that psychological explanations not contradict supervenience. He suggests that one cannot accept the anti-individualistic conclusions of Twin-Earth thought experiments and continue to use folk psychological states to explain behavior. I argue
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