Active Powers and Passive Powers - Do Causal Interactions Require Both?

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Active Powers and Passive Powers - Do Causal Interactions Require Both? / Hansson Wahlberg, Tobias.

I: Philosophia, Vol. 47, Nr. 5, 2019, s. 1603-1612.

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Hansson Wahlberg, T 2019, 'Active Powers and Passive Powers - Do Causal Interactions Require Both?', Philosophia, vol. 47, nr. 5, s. 1603-1612. https://doi.org/10.1007/s11406-019-00059-7

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Hansson Wahlberg, T. (2019). Active Powers and Passive Powers - Do Causal Interactions Require Both? Philosophia, 47(5), 1603-1612. https://doi.org/10.1007/s11406-019-00059-7

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Hansson Wahlberg T. 2019. Active Powers and Passive Powers - Do Causal Interactions Require Both?. Philosophia. 47(5):1603-1612. https://doi.org/10.1007/s11406-019-00059-7

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Hansson Wahlberg, Tobias. "Active Powers and Passive Powers - Do Causal Interactions Require Both?". Philosophia. 2019, 47(5). 1603-1612. https://doi.org/10.1007/s11406-019-00059-7

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Hansson Wahlberg T. Active Powers and Passive Powers - Do Causal Interactions Require Both? Philosophia. 2019;47(5):1603-1612. https://doi.org/10.1007/s11406-019-00059-7

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Hansson Wahlberg, Tobias. / Active Powers and Passive Powers - Do Causal Interactions Require Both?. I: Philosophia. 2019 ; Vol. 47, Nr. 5. s. 1603-1612.

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TY - JOUR

T1 - Active Powers and Passive Powers - Do Causal Interactions Require Both?

AU - Hansson Wahlberg, Tobias

PY - 2019

Y1 - 2019

N2 - Many powers metaphysicians postulate both active and passive powers, understood as distinct kinds of intrinsic causal properties of objects. I argue that the category of passive power is superfluous. I also offer a diagnosis of how philosophers are misled to postulate passive powers.

AB - Many powers metaphysicians postulate both active and passive powers, understood as distinct kinds of intrinsic causal properties of objects. I argue that the category of passive power is superfluous. I also offer a diagnosis of how philosophers are misled to postulate passive powers.

KW - Causation

KW - Dispositions

U2 - 10.1007/s11406-019-00059-7

DO - 10.1007/s11406-019-00059-7

M3 - Article

VL - 47

SP - 1603

EP - 1612

JO - Philosophia

JF - Philosophia

SN - 0048-3893

IS - 5

ER -