02403nam a22003614a 4500 ebr10211446 CaPaEBR 20260707181832.0 m u cr cn||||||||| 060531s2007 enka sb 001 0 eng 2006018032 0754654257 (hardcover : alk. paper) 9780754654254 (hardcover : alk. paper) CaPaEBR CaPaEBR (OCoLC)648340948 BD374 .D57 2007eb 111 22 127680 101646 Dispositions and causal powers [electronic resource] / edited by Max Kistler, Bruno Gnassounou. Aldershot, England ; Burlington, VT : Ashgate, c2007. ix, 303 p. : ill. ; 24 cm. Includes bibliographical references (p. [283]-298) and index. Introduction / Bruno Gnassounou and Max Kistler -- Part I: The metaphysics of dispositions and causal powers -- Dispositions and counterfactuals : from Carnap to Goodman's children and grandchildren / François Schmitz -- Filled in space / Stephen Mumford -- Dispositions and essences / Claudine Tiercelin -- The causal efficacy of macroscopic dispositional properties / Max Kistler -- Opium's virtue dormitive / Cyrille Michon -- Conditional possibility / Bruno Gnassounou -- On ascribing dispositions / Ludger Jansen -- Part II: Dispositions and causal powers in science -- An extended semantic field of dispositions and the grounding role of causal powers / Rom Harré -- What makes a capacity a disposition? / Nancy Cartwright -- Causation, laws and dispositions / Andreas Hüttemann -- Can capacities rescue us from Ceteris Paribus laws? / Markus Schrenk -- Dispositions, relational properties and the quantum world / Mauro Dorato -- Are specific heats dispositions? / Anouk Barberousse. Electronic reproduction. Palo Alto, Calif. : ebrary, 2009. Available via World Wide Web. Access may be limited to ebrary affiliated libraries. Disposition (Philosophy) 116576 Causation. 50788 Electronic books. local 190 Kistler, Max. 172889 Gnassounou, Bruno. 172890 ebrary, Inc. 191 http://site.ebrary.com/lib/strathmore/Doc?id=10211446 An electronic book accessible through the World Wide Web; click to view 127680 101646