Although contemporary powers metaphysics largely understands itself as a metaphysical realist undertaking, recently have come to the surface also within an idealist context. This paper aims characterize and motivate absolute conception of powers. I compare in their respective responses Humean scepticism concerning powers, thereby motivating claim that very idea power is actually best understood...

Following my previous study of paper length vs. number of citations in astronomy (Stanek 2008), some colleagues expressed an interest in knowing if any correlation exists between citations and the number of authors on an astronomical paper. At least naively, one would expect papers with more authors to be cited more. I test this expectation with the same sample of papers as analyzed in Stanek (...