CEU Electronic Theses and Dissertations, 2019
| Author | Yin, Hongkai |
|---|---|
| Title | The Interaction of Causal Powers: A Defense of Mutual Manifestation |
| Summary | There are two competing models of the exercise of powers. In the stimulus-response model, powers remain latent and will be exercised only when they are appropriately triggered by their stimuli. By contrast, the mutual manifestation model depicts manifestations as the interactions between reciprocal powers. This thesis focuses mainly on two aspects of the notion of mutual manifestation: the ontological positions it is related to and the consequences it brings about in the dispositional account of causation. I argue that the mutual manifestation model is preferable to the stimulus-response model with regard both to the ontology of powers and the dispositional account of causation. |
| Supervisor | Griffin, Michael Vance |
| Department | Philosophy MA |
| Full text | https://www.etd.ceu.edu/2019/yin_hongkai.pdf |
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