Nature’s Capacities and their Measurement

By Harold I. Brown. 1991

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Probabilities Of Causation: Three Counterfactual Interpretations And Their Identification (1999, background): “Attempts to enrich the conditioning set with events occurring after the cause in question have led back to deterministic relationships involving counterfactual variables (see Cartwright 1989; Eells 1991).”
A dispositional theory of possibility (2008, unknown): “As far as we can tell, ‘capacity’ realists fall into this group as well; they include: Cartwright 1999 and Cartwright 1989; Dupré 1993.”
Empirical equivalence and underdetermination (2000, background): “Cartwright’ s brand of entity realismÐ to use Ian Hacking’ s phrase from Representing and Intervening (1983)Ð is of a more circumspect variety than Leplin’s; see Cartwright (1983, 1989).”