TY - BOOK ID - 25461795 TI - Powers : a study in metaphysics AU - Molnar, George AU - Mumford, Stephen AU - Armstrong, D.M. PY - 2003 SN - 019925978X 0199204179 9780199204175 9780199259786 128075415X 0191514012 1429470224 019169553X PB - Oxford New York Tokyo Oxford University Press DB - UniCat KW - Causation KW - Disposition (Philosophy) KW - Metaphysics KW - Power (Philosophy) KW - Authority KW - Ethics KW - Philosophy KW - God KW - Ontology KW - Philosophy of mind KW - Causality KW - Cause and effect KW - Effect and cause KW - Final cause KW - Beginning KW - Necessity (Philosophy) KW - Teleology KW - Causation. KW - Metaphysics. KW - power KW - metaphysics KW - Theory of knowledge KW - Causalité KW - Pouvoir (Morale) KW - Disposition (Philosophie) KW - Métaphysique KW - Disposition (Philosophy). KW - Power (Philosophy). KW - Disposition (philosophie) KW - Causalité KW - Pouvoir (philosophie) UR - https://www.unicat.be/uniCat?func=search&query=sysid:25461795 AB - George Molnar came to see that the solution to a number of the problems of contemporary philosophy lay in the development of an alternative to Hume's metaphysics. In this work, which was almost completed when its author died, he developed a thorough account of causal powers and succeeded in producing something both highly focused and at the same time wide-ranging. - ;George Molnar came to see that the solution to a number of the problems of contemporary philosophy lay in the development of an alternative to Hume's metaphysics. This alternative would have real causal powers at its centre. Molna ER -