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ix, 303 p. : ill. ; 24 cm. 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. edited by Max Kistler, Bruno Gnassounou. Includes bibliographical references (p. [283]-298) and index. Electronic reproduction. Palo Alto, Calif. : ebrary, 2009. Available via World Wide Web. Access may be limited to ebrary affiliated libraries. Disposition (Philosophy) Causation BD374 .D57 2007eb 111 http://site.ebrary.com/lib/strathmore/Doc?id=10211446 http://site.ebrary.com/lib/strathmore/Doc?id=10211446 CaPaEBR 060531 20260707181832.0 ebr10211446