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Properties, Powers, and the Subset Account of Realization by PAUL AUDI is a Arts and Humanities article available to read on EtoBox.
What is Properties, Powers, and the Subset Account of Realization about?
According to the __subset account of realization__, a property, __F__, is realized by another property, __G__, whenever __F__ is individuated by a non‐empty proper subset of the causal powers by which __G__ is individuated (and __F__ is not a conjunctive property of which __G__ is a conjunct). This account is especially attractive because it seems both to explain the way in which realized properties are nothing over and above their realizers, and to provide for the causal efficacy of realized properties. It therefore seems to provide a way around the causal exclusion problem. There is reason to doubt, however, that the subset account can achieve both tasks. The problem arises when we look closely at the relation between properties and causal powers, specifically, at the idea that properties __confer__ powers on the things that have them. If realizers are to be ontically prior to what they realize, then we must regard the __conferral__ of powers by properties as a substantive relation of determination. This relation of conferral is at the heart of a kind of exclusion problem, analogous to the familiar causal exclusion problem. I argue that the subset account cannot adequately answer
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- Author
- PAUL AUDI
- Publisher
- Wiley
- Published
- 2011
- Language
- EN
- Field
- Arts and Humanities (Social Sciences)