Derivative Dispositions and Multiple Generative Levels
In Mauricio Suarez (ed.), Probabilities, Causes and Propensities in Physics (2011)
| Abstract | The analysis of dispositions is used to consider cases where the effect of one disposition operating is the existence of another disposition. This may arise from rearrangements within aggregated structures of dispositional parts, or, it is argued, also as stages of derivative dispositions within a set of multiple generative levels. Inspection of examples in both classical and quantum physics suggests a general principle of `Conditional Forward Causation': that dispositions act 'forwards' in a way conditional on certain circumstances or occasions already existing at the `later' levels. | |||||||||
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