Active Powers and Passive Powers – Do Causal Interactions Require Both?

Philosophia 47 (5):1603-1612 (2019)
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Many powers metaphysicians postulate both active and passive powers, understood as distinct kinds of intrinsic causal properties of objects. I argue that the category of passive power is superfluous. I also offer a diagnosis of how philosophers are misled to postulate passive powers.

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