Readership: Scholars and advanced students of philosophy.
Edited by Toby Handfield, Monash University
"ten authors tackle an impressively wide range of topics." - D. H. Mellor, International Studies in the Philosophy of Science
1: Toby Handfield: The metaphysics of dispositions and causes 2: Jennifer McKitrick: Dispositions, causes, and reduction 3: Antony Eagle: Causal structuralism, dispositional actualism, and counterfactual conditionals 4: Stephen Barker: Leaving things to take their chances: Cause and disposition grounded in chance 5: Nancy Cartwright: Causal laws, policy predictions, and the need for genuine powers 6: Richard Corry: How is scientific analysis possible? 7: Timothy O'Connor: Agent-causal power 8: Alexander Bird: Structural properties revisited 9: Ann Whittle: Causal nominalism 10: Marc Lange: Why do the laws explain why? References
