Dispositions and causal powers [electronic resource] / edited by Max Kistler, Bruno Gnassounou.

Introduction / Bruno Gnassounou and Max Kistler
Part I: The metaphysics of dispositions and causal powers
Dispositions and counterfactuals : from Carnap to Goodman's children and grandchildren / François Schmitz
Filled in space / Stephen Mumford
Dispositions and essences / Claudine Tiercelin
The causal efficacy of macroscopic dispositional properties / Max Kistler
Opium's virtue dormitive / Cyrille Michon
Conditional possibility / Bruno Gnassounou
On ascribing dispositions / Ludger Jansen
Part II: Dispositions and causal powers in science
An extended semantic field of dispositions and the grounding role of causal powers / Rom Harré
What makes a capacity a disposition? / Nancy Cartwright
Causation, laws and dispositions / Andreas Hüttemann
Can capacities rescue us from Ceteris Paribus laws? / Markus Schrenk
Dispositions, relational properties and the quantum world / Mauro Dorato
Are specific heats dispositions? / Anouk Barberousse.