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"Causation is everywhere in the world: it features in every science and technology. But how much do we truly understand it? Do we know what it means to say that one thing is a cause of another and do we understand what in the world drives causation? Getting Causes from Powers develops a new and original theory of causation based on an ontology of real powers or dispositions. Others have already suggested that this ought to be possible, but no one has yet performed the detailed work. Stephen Mumford and Rani Lill Anjum argue here that the completed theory will not look exactly as anyone has yet anticipated, and that a thoroughly dispositional theory of causation has some surprising features, for instance with respect to modality. The book is not restricted to the metaphysics of causation, but treats a variety of topics such as explanation, perception, modelling, the logic of causal claims, transitivity, and nonlinearity, and the empirical credentials of the theory are tested with reference to biology."--Publisher's website.

ontology [metaphysics] --- Metaphysics --- Theory of knowledge --- Causation

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*Between Gaia and Ground* examines four axioms of existence that have emerged in recent years across a significant segment of critical theory: the entanglement of existence; the unequal distribution of power to affect the local and transversal terrains of this entanglement; the multiplicity and collapse of the event as the sine qua non of political thought; and the racial and colonial history that informed modern western ontologies and epistemologies and the concept of the west as such. Beyond these axioms, *Between Gaia and Ground* is interested in the broader anticolonial struggles from which they emerged and a reactionary formation, late liberalism, which has attempted to remold, blunt, and redirect these struggles in the context of contemporary climatic, environmental, viral and social collapse. Elizabeth Povinelli treats these axioms as distinct theoretical statements, demonstrating that they are part of much broader discursive surfaces reflecting opposing currents in the direction of political thought and action in the wake of geontopower. Between Gaia and Ground seeks to show how a seemingly casual syntactic arrangement of theoretical statements results in dramatically differing paradigms for figuring the present as a coming catastrophe (l'catastrophe à venir) and as an ancestral one (l'catastrophe ancestral/histoire).

Ethnology. Cultural anthropology --- ontology [metaphysics] --- liberalism --- postcolonialism

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Metaphysics --- metaphysics --- ontology [metaphysics] --- ontologie --- metafysica

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Existentialism. --- Existentialisme. --- Ontologie. --- Ontology. --- existentialism. --- ontology (metaphysics). --- Marcel, Gabriel,

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Arts and Humanities --- Philosophy --- #KVHA:Tijdschriften; Algemene taalkunde --- Periodicals --- Ontology --- Ontology. --- Metaphysics --- ontology [metaphysics] --- ontologie