Power Individuation
A New Version of the Single-Tracking View
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 23199068 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Michał Głowala (0000-0003-3687-1716, Instytut Filozofii, Uniwersytet Wrocławski, ul. Koszarowa 3/20, 51-149, Wrocław, Poland, corresponding author) |
| Year | 2015 |
| Volume | 16 |
| Issue | 2 |
| Pages | 231-252 |
| Publication date | 2015-09-18 |
| Peer Reviewed | Yes |
| Open Access | No |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | Metaphysica (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 1437-2053 • E-ISSN: 1874-6373 |
| Publisher | Walter de Gruyter GmbH (PUBLISHER • DE) |
| DOI | 10.1515/mp-2015-0016 |
| OpenAlex | W2567645624 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 1 |
| References cited | 4 |
The paper answers three questions concerning power individuation: Can one power have various manifestations? If so, do they have to be unified in some way? If so, how exactly do they have to be unified? After a review of contemporary standpoints (Molnar, Lowe, Williams) I present a version of single-tracking view (inspired by Aquinas’s views on the individuation of powers) which is significantly different from contemporary single-tracking proposals of Molnar and Lowe. The main idea is that different sorts of powers have distinct ways of producing their manifestations, so a pair of different manifestations may require distinct powers of one kind , but just one and the same power of another kind . This suggests the form of the unifying description specific for powers. I argue (taking into account some alleged counterexamples) that all the manifestations of one power of some kind must fall under this sort of unifying description.
Counterexample · Epistemology · Individuation · Physics · Power (physics) · Psychoanalysis · Sociology · sort · Tracking (education) · Computer Science · Mathematics · Philosophical Ethics and Theory · Philosophy · Political Philosophy and Ethics · Psychology · War, Ethics, and Justification
| Unique citing works | 1 |
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| Citations per year | 0,14 |
| Citation span | 2019 - 2019 (1) |
| Citation velocity | historical |
| Highly cited | No |
| Citation types | Neutral: 1 |