Getting Causes from Powers

by Stephen Mumford and Rani Lill Anjum

Book Overview

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...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 019969561X
• ISBN13: 9780199695614
• Release Date: November 2011
• Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA
• Length: 272 Pages
• Weight: 0.97 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.9" x 5.7" x 8.5"