Getting Causes from Powers

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 wroteDispositions (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 an Associate Professor at the Norwegian University of Life Sciences. She received her doctorate from the University of Tromsø, funded by the FRIHUM program at the Norwegian Research Council (NFR). Anjum has recently finished a three-year postdoctoral project at Tromsø and Nottingham on causation and dispositions (also funded by FRIHUM).

• Preface ; 1. Passing Powers Around ; 2. Modelling Causes as Vectors ; 3. Against Necessity ; 4. Reductionism, Holism, and Emergence ; 5. Simultaneity ; 6. Explanation, Absences, and Counterfactuals ; 7. The Logic of Causation ; 8. Primitive Modality ; 9. Perceiving Causes ; 10. A Biologically Disposed Theory of Causation ; Conclusion ; Bibliography ; Index

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