Causal Powers And The Intentionality Continuum
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Causal Powers And The Intentionality Continuum
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Author : William A. Bauer
language : en
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Release Date : 2022-10-20
Causal Powers And The Intentionality Continuum written by William A. Bauer and has been published by Cambridge University Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2022-10-20 with Philosophy categories.
Why does anything happen? What is the best account of natural necessity? In this book, William A. Bauer presents and defends a comprehensive account of the internal structure of causal powers that incorporates physical intentionality and information. Bauer explores new lines of thought concerning the theory of pure powers (powerful properties devoid of any qualitative nature), the place of mind in the physical world, and the role of information in explaining fundamental processes. He raises probing questions about physical modality and fundamental properties, and explores the possibility that physical reality and the mind are unified through intentionality. His book will be valuable for researchers and students working in metaphysics, philosophy of science, and philosophy of mind.
Dispositions And Causal Powers
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Author : Bruno Gnassounou
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 2007
Dispositions And Causal Powers written by Bruno Gnassounou and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2007 with Causation categories.
Causal Powers
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Author : Rom Harré
language : en
Publisher: Rowman & Littlefield Publishers
Release Date : 1975
Causal Powers written by Rom Harré and has been published by Rowman & Littlefield Publishers this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1975 with Philosophy categories.
Getting Causes From Powers
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Author : Stephen Mumford
language : en
Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA
Release Date : 2011-09-29
Getting Causes From Powers written by Stephen Mumford and has been published by Oxford University Press, USA this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2011-09-29 with Philosophy categories.
Causation is everywhere in the world: it features in every science and technology. But how much do we understand it? Here, the authors develop a new theory of causation based on an ontology of real powers or dispositions. They provide the first detailed outline of a thoroughly dispositional approach, and explore its surprising features.
Artificial Dispositions
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Author : William A. Bauer
language : en
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing
Release Date : 2023-12-28
Artificial Dispositions written by William A. Bauer and has been published by Bloomsbury Publishing this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2023-12-28 with Philosophy categories.
We inhabit a world not only full of natural dispositions independent of human design, but also artificial dispositions created by our technological prowess. How do these dispositions, found in automation, computation, and artificial intelligence applications, differ metaphysically from their natural counterparts? This collection investigates artificial dispositions: what they are, the roles they play in artificial systems, and how they impact our understanding of the nature of reality, the structure of minds, and the ethics of emerging technologies. It is divided into four parts covering the following interconnected themes: (i) Artificial and Natural Dispositions, (ii) Artificial Systems and Their Dispositions, (iii) Agency, Mind, and Artificial Dispositions, and (iv) Artificial Moral Dispositions. This is a groundbreaking and thought-provoking resource for any student or scholar of philosophy of science, contemporary metaphysics, applied ethics, philosophy of mind, and philosophy of technology.
Mental Causation And Ontology
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Author : S. C. Gibb
language : en
Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA
Release Date : 2013-03-21
Mental Causation And Ontology written by S. C. Gibb and has been published by Oxford University Press, USA this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2013-03-21 with Philosophy categories.
This book demonstrates the importance of ontology for a central debate in philosophy of mind. Mental causation seems an obvious aspect of the world. But it is hard to understand how it can happen unless we get clear about what the entities involved in the process are. An international team of contributors presents new work on this problem.
A Critical Introduction To Causal Powers And Dispositions
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Author : Ruth Groff
language : en
Publisher: Bloomsbury Academic
Release Date : 2025-05-08
A Critical Introduction To Causal Powers And Dispositions written by Ruth Groff and has been published by Bloomsbury Academic this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2025-05-08 with Philosophy categories.
A Critical Introduction to Causation and Causal Powers responds to a groundswell of interest in the topic of causal powers in contemporary metaphysics, presenting a fresh systematic overview of the realist literature,debates and arguments. Introducing the topic via the lens of a contrast between passivism and anti-passivism, the contrast is established in the opening historical overview, plotting the course from Aristotle to early modern rationalism, through to Hume, Reid, Kant and Mill. As well as covering contemporary and 20th century neo-Humean accounts, this introduction includes a review of foundational work on causal powers and dispositional properties in the 1970s, taking care to include both a descriptive and an analytic component. Exploring contemporary anti-passivist thinking about causation, it covers leading theories of causation and provides powers-based approaches to matters such as laws, essences, necessitation, determinism, pandispositionalism, transitivity and induction. The ascription of causal powers to different kinds of potential causal bearer is also addressed: individual agents, sociological phenomena; abstractions and absences. Offering a balanced approach to this key metaphysical topic, A Critical Introduction to Causation and Causal Powers not only introduces debates amongst anti-passivists, but explains throughout how the same issues are handled by passivists. With study questions and references for further reading at the end of each chapter, this is an accessible, up-to-date overview designed for students and researchers working in metaphysics today.
Aquinas On Efficient Causation And Causal Powers
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Author : Gloria Frost
language : en
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Release Date : 2022-08-11
Aquinas On Efficient Causation And Causal Powers written by Gloria Frost and has been published by Cambridge University Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2022-08-11 with Philosophy categories.
This book reconstructs and analyses Aquinas's theories of efficient causation and causal powers.
Reconsidering Causal Powers
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Author : Henrik Lagerlund
language : en
Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA
Release Date : 2021-01-21
Reconsidering Causal Powers written by Henrik Lagerlund and has been published by Oxford University Press, USA this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2021-01-21 with Philosophy categories.
Causal powers are returning to the forefront of realist philosophy of science to fill explanatory gaps seen to be left by reductivist and eliminativist accounts of previous generations. This volume revisits the fortunes of causal powers as scientific explanatory principles across history to foster deeper discussions about their metaphysical natures
Power And Influence
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Author : Richard Corry
language : en
Publisher: Oxford University Press
Release Date : 2019-07-25
Power And Influence written by Richard Corry and has been published by Oxford University Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2019-07-25 with Philosophy categories.
The world is a complex place, and this complexity is an obstacle to our attempts to explain, predict, and control it. In Power and Influence, Richard Corry investigates the assumptions that are built into the reductive method of explanation—the method whereby we study the components of a complex system in relative isolation and use the information so gained to explain or predict the behaviour of the complex whole. He investigates the metaphysical presuppositions built into the reductive method, seeking to ascertain what the world must be like in order that the method could work. Corry argues that the method assumes the existence of causal powers that manifest causal influence—a relatively unrecognised ontological category, of which forces are a paradigm example. The success of the reductive method, therefore, is an argument for the existence of such causal influences. The book goes on to show that adding causal influence to our ontology gives us the resources to solve some traditional problems in the metaphysics of causal powers, laws of nature, causation, emergence, and possibly even normative ethics. What results, then, is not just an understanding of the reductive method, but an integrated metaphysical worldview that is grounded in an ontology of power and influence.