Properties, Powers and Structures Issues in the Metaphysics of Realism

While the phrase "metaphysics of science" has been used from time to time, it has only recently begun to denote a specific research area where metaphysics meets philosophy of science-and the sciences themselves. The essays in this volume demonstrate that metaphysics of science is an innova...

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Main Authors Bird, Alexander, Ellis, Brian, Sankey, Howard
Format eBook
LanguageEnglish
Published United Kingdom Routledge 2013
Taylor and Francis
Taylor & Francis Group
Edition1
SeriesRoutledge Studies in Metaphysics
Subjects
History & Philosophy of Mathematics
Metaphysics
Philosophy of Science
Realism
Science
Ontological Dependence
categorical
essence
Counterfactual Dependence
Fundamental Defining Characteristic
fundamental
Kind Iron
pure
ellis
Determinable Kinds
Causal Powers
Physical Causal Process
Scientific Kinds
Truthmaker Theory
Pure Dispositions
Agnostic
property
Distinct Ontological Category
causal
brian
Bird 2007a
Above Ground
Dispositional Properties
Existential Entailment
Metaphysical Essences
Dispositional Monism
Electrical Synapses
Dispositional Essentialism
Natural Kinds
disposition
Nomic Necessitation
Infimic Species
dispositional
Multi-track Dispositions
Categorical Property
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Table of Contents:
  • Intro -- Properties, Powers and Structures Issues in the Metaphysics of Realism -- Copyright -- Contents -- NOTES ON CONTRIBUTORS -- INTRODUCTION -- Part I SYMPOSIUM ON PROPERTIES -- 1. THE CATEGORICAL DIMENSIONS OF THE CAUSAL POWERS -- 2. DEFENDING CATEGORICALISM -- 3. MONISTIC DISPOSITIONAL ESSENTIALISM -- Part II LEVELS OF INQUIRY -- 4. LEVELS OF REALITY AND SCALES OF APPLICATION -- Part III REALISM IN MATHEMATICS -- 5. ANTI-NOMINALISTIC SCIENTIFIC REALISM: A DEFENCE -- 6. INDISPENSABILITY WITHOUT PLATONISM -- Part IV DISPOSITIONS AND CAUSAL POWERS -- 7. CAUSAL DISPOSITIONALISM -- 8. POWERFUL PROPERTIES AND THE CAUSAL BASIS OF DISPOSITIONS -- 9. FOUR THEORIES OF PURE DISPOSITIONS -- Part V PAN-DISPOSITIONALISM -- 10. THE METAPHYSICS OF PAN-DISPOSITIONALISM -- 11. THE CATEGORICAL-DISPOSITIONAL DISTINCTION -- 12. DISPOSITIONAL ESSENTIALISM AND THE LAWS OF NATURE -- Part VI NATURAL KINDS -- 13. THE METAPHYSICS OF DETERMINABLE KINDS -- 14. SCIENTIFIC KINDS WITHOUT ESSENCES -- REFERENCES -- INDEX