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Getting Causes from Powers de Stephen Mumford

Getting Causes from Powers

Autor Stephen Mumford, Rani Lill Anjum
en Limba Engleză Hardback – 29 sep 2011
Causation is everywhere in the world: it features in every science and technology. But how much do we truly understand it? Do we know what it means to say that one thing is a cause of another and do we understand what in the world drives causation? Getting Causes from Powers develops a new and original theory of causation based on an ontology of real powers or dispositions. Others have already suggested that this ought to be possible, but no one has yet performed the detailed work. Stephen Mumford and Rani Lill Anjum argue here that the completed theory will not look exactly as anyone has yet anticipated, and that a thoroughly dispositional theory of causation has some surprising features, for instance with respect to modality. The book is not restricted to the metaphysics of causation, but treats a variety of topics such as explanation, perception, modelling, the logic of causal claims, transitivity, and nonlinearity, and the empirical credentials of the theory are tested with reference to biology.
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Specificații

ISBN-13: 9780199695614
ISBN-10: 019969561X
Pagini: 272
Dimensiuni: 136 x 218 x 31 mm
Greutate: 0.46 kg
Editura: OUP OXFORD
Colecția OUP Oxford
Locul publicării:Oxford, United Kingdom

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...their book is still the kind of book I would like to have written, and certainly a book I would urge everyone who cares to read.
This book aims to furnish a bold new theory of causation based on an ontology of dispositions, and in this it is successful. . . . a wonderfully comprehensive novel whole with impressive synthetic unity. . . . ambitious and provocative.
[A book] I would recommend first to non-philosophers. Mumford and Anjum assume a professional audience, but their style â intellectual as well as rhetorical â is clear, direct, and not unduly technical.
what would a theory of causation look like if we assume that powers are real? In Getting Causes from Powers, Mumford and Anjum make what is perhaps the first sustained attempt to answer that question ... Such bold and innovative ideas are bound to provoke discussion
the reader is introduced to some interesting new ways of thinking about, and modelling causal processes, and in that respect it is likely to instigate interesting debate.
The book is ... lucidly written, and contains some interesting contributions: in particular on the (lack of) necessary connection between cause and effect on the perceivability of the causal relation.

Notă biografică

Stephen Mumford is Professor of Metaphysics and Head of the School of Humanities at the University of Nottingham. He gained his PhD from Leeds in 1994 and then wrote Dispositions (OUP 1998), Laws in Nature (Routledge 2004), and David Armstrong (Acumen 2007), as well as editing Russell on Metaphysics (Routledge 2003) and George Molnar's Powers (OUP 2003). He was co-investigator in the AHRC-funded project Metaphysics of Science and has been Chair of the British Philosophy of Sport Association. He is currently writing a book on sport: Watching Sport: Aesthetics, Ethics and Emotions. Rani Lill Anjum is Associate Professor at the Norwegian University of Life Sciences and Project Leader of 'CauSci - Causation in Science', a 4 year research project funded by the FRIHUM program at the Research Council of Norway (NFR). She received her doctorate from the University of Tromsø on the logic of conditionals, followed by a 3 year postdoctoral project at Tromsø and Nottingham on causation and dispositions, both funded by NFR's FRIHUM program.