Powers: A Study in Metaphysics

Publisher: Oxford University Press
Language: English
ISBN: 0199204179
Paperback: 388 pages
Data: 2007
Format: PDF
Description: George Molnar came to see that the solution to a number of the problems of contemporary philosophy lay in the development of an alternative to Hume’s metaphysics. This alternative would have real causal powers at its centre. Molnar set about developing a thorough account of powers that might persuade those who remained, perhaps unknowingly, in the grip of Humean assumptions. He succeeded in producing something both highly focused and at the same time wide-ranging. He showed both that the notion of a power was central and that it could serve to dispel a number of long-standing philosophical problems.

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