Ruth Groff is Assistant Professor in the Department of Political Science at Saint Louis University, USA, where she teaches political theory and philosophy. She is the author of Critical Realism, Post-positivism and the Possibility of Knowledge (2007) and the editor of Revitalizing Causality (2008) and Subject and Object: Frankfurt School Writings on Epistemology, Ontology, and Method (2014).

• Acknowledgements1. A Short Note 2. Paradigmatic Positions 3. Ambiguous Passivism 4. The Recovery of Causal Powers in the 20th Century 5. Contemporary Anti-Passivist Frameworks 6. A Closer Look at Properties 7. Back to Causation 8. A Final Round of Disambiguation Appendix IndexReferences 197Index 202

Ruth Groff is Assistant Professor in the Department of Political Science at Saint Louis University, USA, where she teaches political theory and philosophy. She is the author of Critical Realism, Post-positivism and the Possibility of Knowledge (2007) and the editor of Revitalizing Causality (2008) and Subject and Object: Frankfurt School Writings on Epistemology, Ontology, and Method (2014).

• Acknowledgements1. A Short Note 2. Paradigmatic Positions 3. Ambiguous Passivism 4. The Recovery of Causal Powers in the 20th Century 5. Contemporary Anti-Passivist Frameworks 6. A Closer Look at Properties 7. Back to Causation 8. A Final Round of Disambiguation Appendix IndexReferences 197Index 202

Ruth Groff is Assistant Professor in the Department of Political Science at Saint Louis University, USA, where she teaches political theory and philosophy. She is the author of Critical Realism, Post-positivism and the Possibility of Knowledge (2007) and the editor of Revitalizing Causality (2008) and Subject and Object: Frankfurt School Writings on Epistemology, Ontology, and Method (2014).

• Acknowledgements1. A Short Note 2. Paradigmatic Positions 3. Ambiguous Passivism 4. The Recovery of Causal Powers in the 20th Century 5. Contemporary Anti-Passivist Frameworks 6. A Closer Look at Properties 7. Back to Causation 8. A Final Round of Disambiguation Appendix IndexReferences 197Index 202