Powerful Problems for Powerful Qualities

In Defence of Powerful Qualities

The ontology of ‘powerful qualities’ is gaining an increasing amount of attention in the literature on properties. This is the view that the so-called categorical or qualitative properties are identical with ‘dispositional’ properties. The position is associated with C.B. Martin, John Heil, Galen Strawson and Jonathan Jacobs. Robert Schroer (2012) has recently mounted a number of criticisms aga...

Powerful qualities, not pure powers

I explore two accounts of properties within a dispositional essentialist (or causal powers) framework, the pure powers view and the powerful qualities view. I first attempt to clarify precisely what the pure powers view is, and then raise objections to it. I then present the powerful qualities view and, in order to avoid a common misconception, offer a restatement of it that I shall call the tr...

Sustainable qualities : powerful drivers of social change

Looking attentively at the complexity of contemporary society we can detect a variety of creative communities involved in sustainable social innovation. Behind each of these initiatives, stands a group of people who have been able to imagine, develop and manage something new, beyond the standard ways of thinking and doing. They succeeded in challenging the apparent hegemony of mainstream ideas ...

Some Inequalities for Nilpotent Multipliers of Powerful p-Groups

Powerful Techniques for the

When proving invariance properties of programs one is faced with two problems. The rst problem is related to the necessity of proving tautologies of the considered assertion language, whereas the second manifests in the need of nding suuciently strong invariants. This paper focuses on the second problem and describes techniques for the automatic generation of invariants. The rst set of these te...