Capacities, Causality and Modality
Three Edges of the Same Triangle
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https://doi.org/10.18270/rcfc.v19i39.3026Keywords:
dispositions, probabilistic causation, physical modality, naturalized metaphysicsAbstract
This article proposes a naturalized conception of capacities, causality and modality. Particularly, I defend that capacities are modal causal properties that confers to phenomena a range of possible behaviours. Thus, these physical properties are responsible as much of causality as of physical modality. Also, I argue that capacities can be individuated, ascribed, measured and manipulated by means of different empirical approaches. After of addressing general epistemic considerations, the second section sets an ontology for capacities. The third section establishes the relations between probabilistic causation and capacities. The fourth section advances in the articulation of an experimentalist approach to capacities.
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Dupré, John. “Probabilistic Causality Emancipated”. Mindwest Studies in Philosophy IX (1984): 169-175.
Hacking, Ian. Representing and Intervining. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1983.
Hitchcock, Cristopher. “Probabilistic Causation”. The Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy. Ed. Edward N. Zalta. 2016: <https://plato.stanford.edu/archives/fall2018/entries/causation-probabilistic/>.
Hume, David. Investigación sobre el Conocimiento Humano. Trad. Jaime Salas Ortueta. Madrid: Alianza Editorial, 2015.
Mellor, David H. “In Defense of Dispositions”. Philosophical Review 83 (1974): 157-181.
_______. “Counting Corners Correctly”. Analysis 42 (1982): 96-97.
Mill, John Stuart. “A system of Logic”. Collected Works of John Stuart Mill. Toronto: Toronto University Press, 1843. vols. 7-8.
Mumford, Stephen. Dispositions. New York: Oxford University Press, 1998.
Popper, Karl. “The Interpretation of Probability”. The British Journal of Philosophy of Science 10.37 (1959): 25-42.
Psillos, Stathis. “Regularity Theories”. The Oxford Handbook of Causation. Eds. Helen Beebee, Cristopher Hitchcock, Peter Menzies. New York: Oxford University Press, 2006. 129-152.
_____. “Cartwright’s Realist Toil: From Entities to Capacities”. Nancy Cartwright’s Philosophy of Science. Eds. Stephan Hartmann, Carl Hoefer, Luc Bovens. New York: Routledge, 2008. 167-195.
Reichenbach, Hans. The Direction of Time. Berkeley: California University Press, 1971.
Suárez, Mauricio. “Propensities and Pragmatism”. The Journal of Philosophy 110.2 (1971): 61-92. <https://doi.org/10.5840/jphil2013110239>.
Vetter, Bárbara. Potentiality: From Dispositions to Modality. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2015.
Woodward, James. Making Things Happen. New York: Oxford University Press, 2003.
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Published
2020-04-03
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Rodríguez Warnier, P. S. (2020). Capacities, Causality and Modality: Three Edges of the Same Triangle. Revista Colombiana De Filosofía De La Ciencia, 19(39), 147–174. https://doi.org/10.18270/rcfc.v19i39.3026
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