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Author:   Anne Sophie Meincke
Publisher:   Springer Nature Switzerland AG
Imprint:   Springer Nature Switzerland AG
Edition:   1st ed. 2020
Volume:   417
Weight:   0.480kg
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9783030287245

ISBN 10:   3030287246
Pages:   248
Publication Date:   26 August 2021
Audience:   Professional and scholarly ,  Professional & Vocational
Format:   Paperback
Publisher's Status:   Active
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Chapter 1. Dispositionalism: Between Metaphysics and the Philosophy of Science (Anne Sophie Meincke).- Chapter 2. Ontology of Powers (John Heil).- Chapter 3. What Does the Doing? On Powers, Things and Powerful Things (Ruth Groff).- Chapter 4. Active Bearers: The Ontology of Mental Dispositions (Josef Quitterer).- Chapter 5. Powers, Activity and Interaction (Anna Marmodoro).- Chapter 6. What Are Manifestations? (Neil E. Williams).- Chapter 7. Dispositionalism, Persistence and Process (Anne Sophie Meincke).- Chapter 8. Powers, Probability and Statistics (Rani Lill Anjum and Stephen Mumford).- Chapter 9. What Powers Are Not (Elina Pechlivanidi and Stathis Psillos).- Chapter 10. A Dispositional Account of Causation, with Some Remarks on the Ontology of Dispositions (Alexander Bird).- Chapter 11. Powers, Dispositions and Laws of Nature (Maximilian Kistler).- Chapter 12. Doing Away with Dispositions: Powers in the Context of Modern Physics (Steven French).- Chapter 13. Organic Powers (Matthew Tugby).- Index.  

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Anne Sophie Meincke is a Senior Research Fellow at the Philosophy Department of the University of Vienna, Austria, and an Honorary Research Fellow at the Centre for the Study of Life Sciences at the University of Exeter, United Kingdom. Meincke’s research lies at the intersection of metaphysics and the philosophy of biology, with a special focus on elaborating a new process ontological perspective. She is currently PI of the ‘Elise Richter’ research project Bio-Agency and Natural Freedom, funded by the Austrian Science Fund (2019-2023). Previously, Meincke was a Senior Research Fellow at the University of Southampton, United Kingdom, and a Research Fellow at the Universities of Exeter, United Kingdom, and Innsbruck, Austria.

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