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Powers : a history / edited by Julia Jorati.

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"This volume examines some of the main twists and turns in the fascinating history of the philosophical concept of powers or dispositions. It focuses on what one might call the metaphysical sense of 'powers'-that is, the powers that are invoked in the explanation of natural changes an...

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Online Access: Full Text (via ProQuest)
Other Authors: Jorati, Julia (Editor)
Format: eBook
Language:English
Published: New York, NY : Oxford University Press, [2021]
Series:Oxford philosophical concepts.
Subjects:
Causation > History.
Power (Philosophy) > History.
Disposition (Philosophy) > History.
Metaphysics > History.
Causation.
Disposition (Philosophy)
Metaphysics.
Power (Philosophy)
History.
Table of Contents:
  • Cover
  • Series
  • Powers
  • Copyright
  • Contents
  • Series Editor's Foreword
  • Contributors
  • Introduction
  • 1 Causal Powers in Aristotle and His Predecessors
  • 2 Platonic and Stoic Powers
  • Reflection: Power, Nature, Body, Soul, Music
  • 3 Emanationist Powers: Plotinus, Theology of Aristotle, and Ibn Gabirol
  • 4 The Power of Possibility: Power, Nature, and Possibility in Avicenna
  • Reflection: Bâ on Power
  • 5 Causal Powers in the Latin Christian West
  • 6 Causal Powers and Ontology in Descartes, Malebranche, and Leibniz.
  • Reflection: Taming Material Powers: From Paracelsus to Frankenstein
  • 7 The Power of Self-​Motion in Cavendish's Nature
  • 8 "Plastick Powers" and the Power of Sympathy in Cudworth and More: The Spirit of Nature and Plastic Nature
  • Reflection: Locating Powers in Early-​Modern Religious Imagery
  • 9 Powers in Britain, 1689-​1827
  • 10 The Metaphysics of Powers in Kant and Hegel
  • 11 Powers in Contemporary Philosophy
  • Bibliography
  • Index.

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