Powers Parts And Wholes Essays on the Mereology of Powers 1st Edition by Christopher Austin 9781032288567 1032288566

Powers Parts And Wholes Essays on the Mereology of Powers 1st Edition by Christopher Austin – Ebook PDF Instant Download/Delivery:9781032288567,1032288566
Full dowload Powers Parts And Wholes Essays on the Mereology of Powers 1st Edition after payment

Product details:

ISBN 10:1032288566
ISBN 13:9781032288567
Author:Christopher Austin
This volume offers a fresh exploration of the parts–whole relations within a power and among powers. While the metaphysics of powers has been extensively examined in the literature, powers have yet to be studied from the perspective of their mereology. Powers are often assumed to be atomic, and yet what they can do—and what can happen to them—is complex. But if powers are simple, how can they have complex manifestations? Can powers have parts? According to which rules of composition do powers compose into powers? Given the centrality of powers in current scientific as well as philosophical thought, recognizing and understanding the ontological differences between atomic and mereologically complex powers is important, for both philosophy and science. The first part of this book explores how powers divide; the second part, how powers compose. The final part showcases some specific study cases in the domains of quantum mechanics and psychology. Powers, Parts and Wholes will be of interest to professional philosophers and graduate students working in metaphysics, philosophy of science and logic.

Powers Parts And Wholes Essays on the Mereology of Powers 1st Table of contents:

Part I Parts of Powers

1 Carving Up the Network of Powers

Characterising the Network

Graphs and Constraints

Labelled Transition Systems

Identity Conditions

Subcollections

Subsets

Subgraphs

Substructures

Clustering

Coordinating

Preliminaries

Weak and Strong Components

Bisimulation

Moving Forward

Notes

Bibliography

2 Parts and Grounds of Powers: A Logic and Ground-Theoretic Mereology for Power Ontologies

A Mereology of Facts via Grounding

A Minimalist Power Ontology

The Semantics and Logic of the Simple Power Conditionals

Beyond the Minimal Model: Conflicting and Stochastic Powers

The Metaphysics of Conflicting Powers

Appendix. Proof of Strong Supplementation for Ground-Parts

Note

References

3 Complex Powers: Making Many One

What Are Complex Powers?

Modelling Methodologies for Modal Complexities

Mereological Analyses: Making Many One

Composition Criterion: Essence

Composition Criterion: Emergence

Concluding Remarks

Notes

References

4 Powers as Mereological Lawmakers

Powers, Parts and Locations

The Decline of Topic Neutrality and Analyticity

Merging Mereology with a Theory of Powers

Contingentism and Necessitism for Laws, Natural and Mereological

Notes

References

5 Determinable Dispositions

Clarifying Way-Non-Specificity

An Argument for Determinable Dispositions

Another Argument

Lessons

Notes

References

Part II Composition of Powers

6 What There Is and What There Could Be: Mereology, Causality, and Possibility in an Ontology of Powers

What are Powers?

When are Powers Parts of Powers?

Where are Powers and their Parts?

Direct Composition of Powers

Objections to the Realisation Account of Direct Composition

Indirect Part–whole Relations

Conclusion

Notes

References

7 What Can Causal Powers Do for Interventionism?: The Problem of Logically Complex Causes

Introduction

The Interventionist Theory of Causation

The Problem of Disjunctive Causes

Logically Complex Variables: A New Field of Work for Powers?

Conclusion

References

8 Collective Powers

Powers and Higher-level Properties

Scepticism about Composite Substances and Higher-level Powers

Higher-level Powers as Collective Properties: the Case for Plural Instantiation

Collective Powers and their Grounding

Some Objections and Replies

Some Remaining Issues: Causal Exclusion and the Metaphysical Source of Grounding

Notes

References

9 The Special Power-Composition Question and the Powerful Cosmos

The Special Power-Composition Question

Why Adopt a Moderate Approach to the Special Power-Composition Question?

Marmodoro’s Moderate Approach

The Argument for the Powerful Cosmos

Why Embrace the Powerful Cosmos?

Notes

References

10 The Composition of Naïve Powers

Naïve Powers

Composition

Naïve Powers Preserved

Objections and Replies

Notes

References

Part III Power Mereology in Science

11 Quantum Dispositions and the Simple Theory of Property Composition

Introduction

Quantum Properties

Entanglement

How to Make Sense of the Properties of Entangled Quantum Systems?

Concluding Remarks

Notes

References

12 Dispositions, Mereology and Panpsychism: The Case for Phenomenal Properties

Introduction

Russellian Monism and Three Views

Experiences and their Parts

Mereology for Pain (or the Combination Problem)

The Metaphysical Place of Phenomenal Atoms

 

People also search for Powers Parts And Wholes Essays on the Mereology of Powers 1st:

what is the power to have all powers

essays on power

essays on the intellectual powers of man pdf

where does this power come from (formally and practically)

essays on the intellectual powers of man

 

Tags:

Christopher Austin,Wholes,Powers,Mereology,Essays