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Dispositions and causes /

Handfield, Toby.

Dispositions and causes /

Record Type:	Language materials, printed : Monograph/item
Title/Author:	Dispositions and causes // edited by Toby Handfield.
other author:	Handfield, Toby.
Published:	New York :Oxford University Press, : 2009.,
Description:	viii, 343 p. ;23 cm.;
Subject:	Science - Philosophy. -
Online resource:	http://www.loc.gov/catdir/toc/fy0904/2008036161.html
ISBN:	9780199558933 (cloth) :

Dispositions and causes /
Dispositions and causes /edited by Toby Handfield. - New York :Oxford University Press,2009. - viii, 343 p. ;23 cm. - Mind association occasional series. - Mind association occasional series.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

The metaphysics of dispositions and causes / Toby Handfield -- Dispositions, causes, and reduction / Jennifer McKitrick -- Causal structuralism, dispositional actualism, and counterfactual conditionals -- Antony eagle -- Leaving things to take their chances : cause and disposition grounded in chance / Stephen Barker -- Causal laws, policy predictions, and the need for genuine powers / Nancy Cartwright -- How is scientific analysis possible? / Richard Corry -- Agent-causal power / Timothy O'Connor -- Structural properties revisited / Alexander Bird -- Causal nominalism / Ann Whittle -- Why do the laws explain why? / Marc Lange.

ISBN: 9780199558933 (cloth) :NT2394

LCCN: 2008036161Subjects--Topical Terms:

557504
Science
--Philosophy.

LC Class. No.: BD374 / .D58 2009

Dewey Class. No.: 122

Dispositions and causes /
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