TY - BOOK ID - 77875562 TI - Dispositions and causal powers AU - Kistler, Max AU - Gnassounou, Bruno PY - 2007 SN - 1317149505 1317149491 128110440X 9786611104405 0754684504 9780754684503 0754654257 9780754654254 1315577615 PB - Aldershot, England Burlington, VT Ashgate DB - UniCat KW - Disposition (Philosophy) KW - Causation. KW - Causality KW - Cause and effect KW - Effect and cause KW - Final cause KW - Beginning KW - God KW - Metaphysics KW - Philosophy KW - Necessity (Philosophy) KW - Teleology UR - https://www.unicat.be/uniCat?func=search&query=sysid:77875562 AB - This collection of essays, by leading international researchers, examines the case for realism with respect to dispositions and causal powers in both metaphysics and science. Among the issues debated in this book is whether dispositions can be analyzed in terms of conditionals, whether all dispositions have a so-called categorical basis and, if they do, what is the relation between the disposition and its basis. ER -