The Metaphysics of Powerful Qualities: Powerful Categoricalism and the Laws of Nature [Hardcover]

This book examines the metaphysical issues regarding the powerful qualities view in all its various forms. The author also develops and defends his own version of the powerful qualities view, which he calls powerful categoricalism.

1. Introduction??Part 1: Powerful Qualities??2. Meet the Powerful Qualities? 3. The Identity Theory? 4. The Grounding View? 5. The Compound View? 6. The Higher Order Properties Theory and the Dual Aspect Account??Part 2: Powerful Categoricalism??7. The Dualist Model of Laws and Powers? 8. Powerful Categoricalism: Foundations? 9. Powerful Categoricalism: Nomic relations, laws, and governance? 10. Powerful Categoricalism: ? Defence

Vassilis Livanios is Assistant Professor at the University of Cyprus with research interests in the metaphysics of properties and laws. He is the author of Science in Metaphysics: Exploring the Metaphysics of Properties and Laws (2017).

This book examines the metaphysical issues regarding the powerful qualities view in all its various forms. The author also develops and defends his own version of the powerful qualities view, which he calls powerful categoricalism.

In recent years, the powerful qualities view about the nature of properties has received considerable attention in the philosophical literature. The core tenet of the powerful qualities view is that properties are both dispositional and categorical/qualitative. Despite the increased popularity of the powerful qualities view, there is no book-length presentation of the view in its distinct versions. The first part of this book analyses the advantages and drawbacks of each version of the theory, paying special attention to those difficulties that make it unstable and perhaps incomprehensible. In the second part, the author showlc¯