The Powers Metaphysic

Oxford: Oxford University Press (2019)
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Neil E. Williams develops a systematic metaphysics centred on the idea of powers, as a rival to neo-Humeanism, the dominant systematic metaphysics in philosophy today. Williams takes powers to be inherently causal properties and uses them as the foundation of his explanations of causation, persistence, laws, and modality.

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Neil E. Williams
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Properties.Francesco Orilia & Michele Paolini Paoletti - 2020 - Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy.
Grounding theories of powers.Matthew Tugby - 2020 - Synthese 198 (12):11187-11216.

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