Powers, Parts and Wholes: Essays on the Mereology of Powers [Paperback]

Introduction Christopher J. Austin, Anna Marmodoro, and Andrea Roselli  Part 1: Parts of Powers  1. Carving up the Network of Powers A.J. Cotnoir  2. Parts and Grounds of Powers: A Logic and Ground-Theoretic Mereology for Power Ontologies Robert C. Koons  3. Complex Powers: Making Many One Christopher J. Austin  4. Powers as Mereological Lawmakers Michael Traynor  5. Determinable Dispositions Nick Kroll  Part 2: Composition of Powers  6. What There Is and What There Could Be: Mereology, Causality, and Possibility in an Ontology of Powers Sophie R. Allen  7. What Can Causal Powers do for Interventionism? The Problem of Logically Complex Causes Vera Hoffmann-Kolss  8. Collective Powers Xi-Yang Guo and Matthew Tugby  9. The Special-Power Composition Question and the Powerful Cosmos Joaquim Giannotti  10. The Composition of Na?ve Powers Michele Paolini Paoletti  Part 3: Power Mereology in Science  11. Quantum Dispositions and the Simple Theory of Property Composition Matteo Morganti  12. Dispositions, Mereology and Panpsychism: The Case for Phenomenal Properties Simone Gozzano

Christopher J. Austin is a Postdoctoral Research Fellow in the 'Mistakes in Living Systems: A New Conceptual Framework for the Study of Purpose in Biology' project at Reading University. His specialisation is in Metaphysics and Philosophy of Science. He is the author of Essence in the Age of Evolution: A New Theory of Natural Kinds