Powers, Parts and Wholes: Essays on the Mereology of Powers

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Half Title
Series Page
Title Page
Copyright Page
Table of Contents
Notes on Contributors
Introduction
	Note
Part I: Parts of Powers
	Chapter 1: Carving Up the Network of Powers
		Characterising the Network
			Graphs and Constraints
			Labelled Transition Systems
				Untriggered Powers
				Reciprocal Powers
			Identity Conditions
		Subcollections
			Subsets
			Subgraphs
				Disjunctive Powers?
				Mereology
			Substructures
				Mereology?
				Parts Twice Over?
				Disconnected Wholes
			Clustering
				Mereology
				Weights
				Losing Connections
		Coordinating
			Preliminaries
			Weak and Strong Components
				Mereology
			Bisimulation
		Moving Forward
		Notes
		Bibliography
	Chapter 2: Parts and Grounds of Powers: A Logic and Ground-Theoretic Mereology for Power Ontologies
		A Mereology of Facts via Grounding
		A Minimalist Power Ontology
		The Semantics and Logic of the Simple Power Conditionals
		Beyond the Minimal Model: Conflicting and Stochastic Powers
		The Metaphysics of Conflicting Powers
		Note
		References
	Chapter 3: Complex Powers: Making Many One
		What Are Complex Powers?
		Modelling Methodologies for Modal Complexities
		Mereological Analyses: Making Many One
		Composition Criterion: Essence
		Composition Criterion: Emergence
		Concluding Remarks
		Notes
		References
	Chapter 4: Powers as Mereological Lawmakers
		Powers, Parts and Locations
		The Decline of Topic Neutrality and Analyticity
		Merging Mereology with a Theory of Powers
		Contingentism and Necessitism for Laws, Natural and Mereological
		Notes
		References
	Chapter 5: Determinable Dispositions
		Clarifying Way-Non-Specificity
		An Argument for Determinable Dispositions
		Another Argument
		Lessons
		Notes
		References
Part II: Composition of Powers
	Chapter 6: What There Is and What There Could Be: Mereology, Causality, and Possibility in an Ontology of Powers
		What are Powers?
		When are Powers Parts of Powers?
		Where are Powers and their Parts?
		Direct Composition of Powers
		Objections to the Realisation Account of Direct Composition
		Indirect Part–whole Relations
		Conclusion
		Notes
		References
	Chapter 7: What Can Causal Powers Do for Interventionism?: The Problem of Logically Complex Causes
		Introduction
		The Interventionist Theory of Causation
		The Problem of Disjunctive Causes
		Logically Complex Variables: A New Field of Work for Powers?
		Conclusion
		References
	Chapter 8: Collective Powers
		Powers and Higher-level Properties
		Scepticism about Composite Substances and Higher-level Powers
		Higher-level Powers as Collective Properties: the Case for Plural Instantiation
		Collective Powers and their Grounding
		Some Objections and Replies
		Some Remaining Issues: Causal Exclusion and the Metaphysical Source of Grounding
		Notes
		References
	Chapter 9: The Special Power-Composition Question and the Powerful Cosmos
		The Special Power-Composition Question
		Why Adopt a Moderate Approach to the Special Power-Composition Question?
		Marmodoro’s Moderate Approach
		The Argument for the Powerful Cosmos
		Why Embrace the Powerful Cosmos?
		Notes
		References
	Chapter 10: The Composition of Naïve Powers
		Naïve Powers
		Composition
		Naïve Powers Preserved
		Objections and Replies
		Notes
		References
Part III: Power Mereology in Science
	Chapter 11: Quantum Dispositions and the Simple Theory of Property Composition
		Introduction
		Quantum Properties
		Entanglement
		How to Make Sense of the Properties of Entangled Quantum Systems?
		Concluding Remarks
		Notes
		References
	Chapter 12: Dispositions, Mereology and Panpsychism: The Case for Phenomenal Properties
		Introduction
		Russellian Monism and Three Views
		Experiences and their Parts
		Mereology for Pain (or the Combination Problem)
		The Metaphysical Place of Phenomenal Atoms
		Acknowledgments
		Notes
		References
Index