Properties, powers, and structures : issues in the metaphysics of realism

Title
  1. Properties, powers, and structures : issues in the metaphysics of realism / edited by Alexander Bird, Brian Ellis, and Howard Sankey.
Published by
  1. New York : Routledge, 2012.

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Additional authors
  1. Bird, Alexander, 1964-
  2. Ellis, B. D. (Brian David), 1929-
  3. Sankey, Howard.
Description
  1. ix, 270 pages : illustrations; 24 cm.
Summary
  1. 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 innovative field of research in its own right. The principle areas covered are: The modal metaphysics of properties: What is the essential nature of natural properties? Are all properties essentially categorical? Are they all essentially dispositions, or are some categorical and others dispositional?
Series statement
  1. Routledge studies in metaphysics ; 5
Uniform title
  1. Routledge studies in metaphysics ; v. 5.
Subject
  1. Realism > Congresses
  2. Science > Philosophy > Congresses
  3. Realism
  4. Science > Philosophy
  5. Realismus Philosophie
  6. Metaphysik
  7. Realismus
  8. Metaphysik
  9. Realismus (Philosophie)
Genre/Form
  1. Conference papers and proceedings.
Contents
  1. The categorical dimensions of the causal powers / Brian Ellis -- Defending categoricalism / D.M. Armstrong -- Monistic dispositional essentialism / Alexander Bird -- Levels of reality and scales of application / Patrick McGivern -- Anti-nominalistic scientific realism: a defence / Stathis Psillos -- Indispensability without platonism / Anne Newstead and James Franklin -- Causal dispositionalism / Stephen Mumford and Rani Lill Anjum -- Powerful properties and the causal basis of dispositions / Max Kistler -- Four theories of pure dispositions / William A. Bauer -- The metaphysics of pan-dispositionalism / Matthew Tugby -- The categorical-dispositional distinction / Sharon R. Ford -- Dispositional essentialism and the laws of the nature / Barbara Vetter -- The metaphysics of determinable kinds / Emma Tobin -- Scientific kinds without essences / Corinne L. Bloch.
Owning institution
  1. Princeton University Library
Note
  1. Proceedings of a conference held in July 2009 at the University of Melbourne.
Bibliography (note)
  1. Includes bibliographical references and index.