This volume is a collection of papers that advance our understanding of the metaphysics of powers — properties such as fragility and electric charge. The meta

Neil E. Williams develops a systematic metaphysics centred on the idea of powers, as a rival to neo-Humeanism, the dominant systematic metaphysics in philosophy

George Molnar came to see that the solution to a number of the problems of contemporary philosophy lay in the development of an alternative to Hume's metaphysic

Corry examines the metaphysical presuppositions in the reductive method of explanation. He argues that it makes assumptions about the nature of causal power and

Presents a fresh interpretation of Nietzsche's controversial account of nature and value in relation to Kant and Hume.