Resumen
Este trabajo trata de clarificar la noción de poder causal. Se sostiene que un poder causal debe ser comprendido en relación con cuestiones más amplias de metafísica modal y de causalidad. Se describen cuatro teorías alternativas principales de concebirlo: (i) como proyección subjetiva de nuestra imaginación o de nuestras capacidades cognitivas de concebir algo, (ii) como resultado de la semejanza entre diferentes mundos posibles, (iii) como producto de la recombinación de entidades independientes entre sí, y (iv) como entidad primitiva, no reducible a otros estados de cosas más básicos. Se afirma que la adopción de una u otra de estas alternativas tiene consecuencias importantes en varios debates donde se ha usado la noción de poder causal.
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