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" Properties, Powers and Structures : "
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874337
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Bird, Alexander.
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Properties, Powers and Structures : : Issues in the Metaphysics of Realism.
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Hoboken :: Taylor & Francis,, 2011.
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Routledge Studies in Metaphysics
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1 online resource (281 pages).
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0203124480
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: 9780203124482
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0415895359
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9780415895354
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Includes bibliographical references and index.
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Properties, Powers and Structures Issues in the Metaphysics of Realism; Copyright; Contents; NOTES ON CONTRIBUTORS; INTRODUCTION; Part ISYMPOSIUM ON PROPERTIES; 1. THE CATEGORICAL DIMENSIONS OF THE CAUSAL POWERS; 2. DEFENDING CATEGORICALISM; 3. MONISTIC DISPOSITIONAL ESSENTIALISM; Part IILEVELS OF INQUIRY; 4. LEVELS OF REALITY AND SCALES OF APPLICATION; Part IIIREALISM IN MATHEMATICS; 5. ANTI-NOMINALISTIC SCIENTIFIC REALISM: A DEFENCE; 6. INDISPENSABILITY WITHOUT PLATONISM; Part IVDISPOSITIONS AND CAUSAL POWERS; 7. CAUSAL DISPOSITIONALISM.
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8. POWERFUL PROPERTIES AND THE CAUSAL BASIS OF DISPOSITIONS9. FOUR THEORIES OF PURE DISPOSITIONS; Part VPAN-DISPOSITIONALISM; 10. THE METAPHYSICS OF PAN-DISPOSITIONALISM; 11. THE CATEGORICAL-DISPOSITIONAL DISTINCTION; 12. DISPOSITIONAL ESSENTIALISM AND THE LAWS OF NATURE; Part VINATURAL KINDS; 13. THE METAPHYSICS OF DETERMINABLE KINDS; 14. SCIENTIFIC KINDS WITHOUT ESSENCES; REFERENCES; INDEX.
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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? Realism in.
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Realism, Congresses.
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Science-- Philosophy, Congresses.
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Metaphysik
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Metaphysik.
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Realism.
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Realismus
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Realismus.
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Science-- Philosophy.
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110
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Q175.32.R42 P74 2012
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5,1ssgn
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CC 6000rvk
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Ellis, Brian.
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Sankey, Howard.
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