Powers And Capacities In Philosophy
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Author |
: Ruth Groff |
Publisher |
: Routledge |
Total Pages |
: 362 |
Release |
: 2013 |
ISBN-10 |
: 9780415889889 |
ISBN-13 |
: 041588988X |
Rating |
: 4/5 (89 Downloads) |
Synopsis Powers and Capacities in Philosophy by : Ruth Groff
Published in 2012, Powers and Capacities in Philosophy is a valuable contribution to the field of Philosophy.
Author |
: Bruno Gnassounou |
Publisher |
: Routledge |
Total Pages |
: 343 |
Release |
: 2016-05-23 |
ISBN-10 |
: 9781317149491 |
ISBN-13 |
: 1317149491 |
Rating |
: 4/5 (91 Downloads) |
Synopsis Dispositions and Causal Powers by : Bruno Gnassounou
Dispositions are everywhere. We say that a wall is hard, that water quenches thirst and is transparent, that dogs can swim and oak trees can let their leaves fall, and that acid has the power to corrode metals. All these statements express attributions of dispositions, be they physical, physiological or psychological, yet there is much philosophical debate about how far, if at all, dispositional predicates can have complete meaning or figure in causal explanations. This collection of essays, by leading international researchers, examine the case for realism with respect to dispositions and causal powers in both metaphysics and science. Among the issues debated in this book is whether dispositions can be analyzed in terms of conditionals, whether all dispositions have a so-called categorical basis and, if they do, what is the relation between the disposition and its basis.
Author |
: Jonathan D. Jacobs |
Publisher |
: Oxford University Press |
Total Pages |
: 245 |
Release |
: 2017 |
ISBN-10 |
: 9780198796572 |
ISBN-13 |
: 0198796579 |
Rating |
: 4/5 (72 Downloads) |
Synopsis Causal Powers by : Jonathan D. Jacobs
We use concepts of causal powers and their relatives-dispositions, capacities, and abilities-to describe the world around us, both in everyday life and in scientific practice. This volume presents new work on the nature of causal powers, and their connections with other phenomena within metaphysics, philosophy of science, and philosophy of mind.
Author |
: Thomas Kjeller Johansen |
Publisher |
: OUP Oxford |
Total Pages |
: 313 |
Release |
: 2012-10-18 |
ISBN-10 |
: 9780191633010 |
ISBN-13 |
: 0191633011 |
Rating |
: 4/5 (10 Downloads) |
Synopsis The Powers of Aristotle's Soul by : Thomas Kjeller Johansen
Aristotle is considered by many to be the founder of 'faculty psychology'—the attempt to explain a variety of psychological phenomena by reference to a few inborn capacities. In The Powers of Aristotle's Soul, Thomas Kjeller Johansen investigates his main work on psychology, the De Anima, from this perspective. He shows how Aristotle conceives of the soul's capacities and how he uses them to account for the souls of living beings. Johansen offers an original account of how Aristotle defines the capacities in relation to their activities and proper objects, and considers the relationship of the body to the definition of the soul's capacities. Against the background of Aristotle's theory of science, Johansen argues that the capacities of the soul serve as causal principles in the explanation of the various life forms. He develops detailed readings of Aristotle's treatment of nutrition, perception, and intellect, which show the soul's various roles as formal, final and efficient causes, and argues that the so-called 'agent' intellect falls outside the scope of Aristotle's natural scientific approach to the soul. Other psychological activities, various kinds of perception (including 'perceiving that we perceive'), memory, imagination, are accounted for in their explanatory dependency on the basic capacities. The ability to move spatially is similarly explained as derivative from the perceptual or intellectual capacities. Johansen claims that these capacities together with the nutritive may be understood as 'parts' of the soul, as they are basic to the definition and explanation of the various kinds of soul. Finally, he considers how the account of the capacities in the De Anima is adopted and adapted in Aristotle's biological and minor psychological works.
Author |
: John Gibson Macvicar |
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: |
Total Pages |
: 192 |
Release |
: 1868 |
ISBN-10 |
: WISC:89004280772 |
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: |
Rating |
: 4/5 (72 Downloads) |
Synopsis A Sketch of a Philosophy ...: Mind: its powers and capacities, and its relation to matter by : John Gibson Macvicar
Author |
: Neil E. Williams |
Publisher |
: |
Total Pages |
: 267 |
Release |
: 2019 |
ISBN-10 |
: 9780198833574 |
ISBN-13 |
: 0198833571 |
Rating |
: 4/5 (74 Downloads) |
Synopsis The Powers Metaphysic by : Neil E. Williams
Neil E. Williams develops a systematic metaphysics centred on the idea of powers, as a rival to neo-Humeanism, the dominant systematic metaphysics in philosophy today. Williams takes powers to be inherently causal properties and uses them as the foundation of his explanations of causation, persistence, laws, and modality.
Author |
: Ruth Groff |
Publisher |
: Bloomsbury Academic |
Total Pages |
: 0 |
Release |
: 2025-05-08 |
ISBN-10 |
: 1472530586 |
ISBN-13 |
: 9781472530585 |
Rating |
: 4/5 (86 Downloads) |
Synopsis A Critical Introduction to Causal Powers and Dispositions by : Ruth Groff
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.
Author |
: Jonathan D. Jacobs |
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: |
Total Pages |
: 0 |
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: |
ISBN-10 |
: 0191837830 |
ISBN-13 |
: 9780191837838 |
Rating |
: 4/5 (30 Downloads) |
Synopsis Causal Powers by : Jonathan D. Jacobs
We use concepts of causal powers and their relatives-dispositions, capacities, and abilities-to describe the world around us, both in everyday life and in scientific practice. This volume presents new work on the nature of causal powers, and their connections with other phenomena within metaphysics, philosophy of science, and philosophy of mind.
Author |
: Russell DiSilvestro |
Publisher |
: Springer Science & Business Media |
Total Pages |
: 219 |
Release |
: 2010-04-21 |
ISBN-10 |
: 9789048185375 |
ISBN-13 |
: 9048185378 |
Rating |
: 4/5 (75 Downloads) |
Synopsis Human Capacities and Moral Status by : Russell DiSilvestro
Many debates about the moral status of things—for example, debates about the natural rights of human fetuses or nonhuman animals—eventually migrate towards a discussion of the capacities of the things in question—for example, their capacities to feel pain, think, or love. Yet the move towards capacities is often controversial: if a human’s capacities are the basis of its moral status, how could a human having lesser capacities than you and I have the same "serious" moral status as you and I? This book answers this question by arguing that if something is human, it has a set of typical human capacities; that if something has a set of typical human capacities, it has serious moral status; and thus all human beings have the same sort of serious moral status as you and I. Beginning from what our common intuitions tell us about situations involving "temporary incapacitation"—where a human organism has, then loses, then regains a certain capacity—this book argues for substantive conclusions regarding human fetuses and embryos, humans in a permanent vegetative state, humans suffering from brain diseases, and humans born with genetic disorders. Since these conclusions must have some impact on our ongoing moral and political debates about the proper treatment of such humans, this book will be useful to professionals and students in philosophy, bioethics, law, medicine, and public policy.
Author |
: Miranda Fricker |
Publisher |
: Clarendon Press |
Total Pages |
: 198 |
Release |
: 2007-07-05 |
ISBN-10 |
: 9780191519307 |
ISBN-13 |
: 0191519308 |
Rating |
: 4/5 (07 Downloads) |
Synopsis Epistemic Injustice by : Miranda Fricker
In this exploration of new territory between ethics and epistemology, Miranda Fricker argues that there is a distinctively epistemic type of injustice, in which someone is wronged specifically in their capacity as a knower. Justice is one of the oldest and most central themes in philosophy, but in order to reveal the ethical dimension of our epistemic practices the focus must shift to injustice. Fricker adjusts the philosophical lens so that we see through to the negative space that is epistemic injustice. The book explores two different types of epistemic injustice, each driven by a form of prejudice, and from this exploration comes a positive account of two corrective ethical-intellectual virtues. The characterization of these phenomena casts light on many issues, such as social power, prejudice, virtue, and the genealogy of knowledge, and it proposes a virtue epistemological account of testimony. In this ground-breaking book, the entanglements of reason and social power are traced in a new way, to reveal the different forms of epistemic injustice and their place in the broad pattern of social injustice.