Title: Powers and Capacities in Philosophy: The New Aristotelianism
Abstract: Introduction Ruth Groff Part I Metaphysics 1. The Power of Power Stephen Mumford 2. Limitations of Power Alexander Bird 3. Emergence, Causal Powers, and Aristotelianism in Metaphysics Eleonore Stump 4. The Ineliminability of Dispositions in Hume's Rejection of Causal Powers, Lynn S. Joy Part II Philosophy of Science 5. Causal Powers: Without Them, What Would Causal Laws Do? Nancy Cartwright and John Pemberton 6. Dispositions for Scientific Realism Anjan Chakravartty 7. Powerful Particulars Revisited Rom Harre Part III. Mind and Agency 8. Powers, Structures and Minds William Jaworski 9. The Will as a Rational Free Power E. J. Lowe 10. The Power of Agency Brian Ellis 11. Whose Powers? Which Agency? Ruth Groff Part IV: Ethics and Epistemology12. Dispositions and Ethics Rani Lill Anjum, Svein Anders Noer Lie and Stephen Mumford 13. The Power, and Limitations, of Virtue Epistemology Duncan Pritchard and Jesper Kallestrup14. Powers and Reasons Linda Zagzebski Part V: Social and Political Philosophy 15. Emergence and Social Causation Tony Lawson 16. Gender Essentialism: Aristotle or Locke? Charlotte Witt17. Rules, Goods and Powers Kelvin Knight
Publication Year: 2013
Publication Date: 2013-01-25
Language: en
Type: book
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