Corresponding Powers
Corresponding Powers

Author: George Hughes

Publisher: DS Brewer

Published: 1997

Total Pages: 274

ISBN-13: 9780859915038

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Essays on aspects of English literature from Chaucer to Henry James, with special focus on the Romantics.

Dispositions and Causal Powers
Dispositions and Causal Powers

Author: Bruno Gnassounou

Publisher: Routledge

Published: 2016-05-23

Total Pages: 316

ISBN-13: 1317149505

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Dispositions are everywhere. We say that a wall is hard, that water quenches thirst and is transparent, that dogs can swim and oak trees can let their leaves fall, and that acid has the power to corrode metals. All these statements express attributions of dispositions, be they physical, physiological or psychological, yet there is much philosophical debate about how far, if at all, dispositional predicates can have complete meaning or figure in causal explanations. This collection of essays, by leading international researchers, examine the case for realism with respect to dispositions and causal powers in both metaphysics and science. Among the issues debated in this book is whether dispositions can be analyzed in terms of conditionals, whether all dispositions have a so-called categorical basis and, if they do, what is the relation between the disposition and its basis.

Anarchy, Order and Power in World Politics
Anarchy, Order and Power in World Politics

Author: Seifudein Adem

Publisher: Routledge

Published: 2017-11-01

Total Pages: 278

ISBN-13: 1351743538

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This title was first published in 2002: Questioning the most fundamental assumptions of international relations theory, this absorbing work compares and contrasts domestic and international politics regarding the issues of order and disorder taking into account aspects of the two realms which have been neglected by scholarship until now. Challenging the view that there exists a one-to-one correspondence between the absence of a world government and international anarchy and that durable and genuine cooperation among sovereign states becomes extremely difficult, if not impossible, under the circumstances, this text is suitable for upper-level undergraduates, graduates and scholars of international relations.

Rational Powers in Action
Rational Powers in Action

Author: Sergio Tenenbaum

Publisher: Oxford University Press

Published: 2020-11-05

Total Pages: 258

ISBN-13: 0192592270

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Human actions unfold over time, in pursuit of ends that are not fully specified in advance. Rational Powers in Action locates these features of the human condition at the heart of a new theory of instrumental rationality. Where many theories of rational agency focus on instantaneous choices between sharply defined outcomes, treating the temporally extended and partially open-ended character of action as an afterthought, this book argues that the deep structure of instrumental rationality can only be understood if we see how it governs the pursuit of long-term, indeterminate ends. These are ends that cannot be realized through a single momentary action, and whose content leaves partly open what counts as realizing the end. Sergio Tenenbaum argues that we need to focus on temporal duration and the indeterminacy of ends in intentional action, even to explain the rational governance of relatively simple actions. Theories of moment-by-moment preference maximization, or indeed any understanding of instrumental rationality on the basis of momentary mental items, cannot capture the fundamental structure of our instrumentally rational capacities. Tenenbaum provides a new theory of instrumental rationality as rationality in action.