Powers, dispositions, properties or a causal realist manifesto

Revitalizing Causality: Realism About Causality in Philosophy and Social Science

Volumn , Issue , 2007, Pages 139-151

  Mumford, Stephen ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF NOTTINGHAM   (United Kingdom)

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DOI: 10.4324/9780203932636     Document Type: Chapter

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