Rest of the ppl covered in my new book! 2/2

Ch. 5: Cartwright, Ellis, Mumford (& w/Anjum)
Ch. 6: Heil, Molnar, Vetter, McKitrick
Ch. 7: Chakravartty, Marmodoro, Ingthorsson

(There will also be an Appendix. I just couldn't do everyone.)

# A Critical Intro to Causal Powers & Dispositions

Here are the thinkers whose views abt causal powers you'll find in my new book. (Post is 1 of 2)

Ch. 2: Aristotle, Locke, Hume
Ch. 3: Kant, Mill; Armstrong, Bird, Woodward
Ch. 4: Reid, Wm. James, RW Sellars, Anscombe, Lamprecht (❤); then Harré & Madden, Roy Bhaskar

: Hey guys! I finished my new book, *A Critical Introduction to Causal Powers and Dispositions*. Am now doing the final line-editing, and I think that it's kind of good! It took me long enough to write each chapter that I haven't looked back until now. It will be published by Bloomsbury.

My mom, who just wrote a wonderful memoir, called *Not If I Can Help It: A Family Lawyer's Fight for Victims of Domestic Violence and the Poor* (Rivertowns Books, 2025) is on Bluesky! @meggroffauthor.bsky.social

Admittedly, it might hinge upon whether or not there's a coherent self or even ego-state that has merely cloaked itself in surfaces or if, instead, it's fiction - or as good as - all the way down.

Have I got it wrong?

But I think that the appearance is misleading, and my provisional answer is no. One can be a collage of artifice and also defy norms. It's just that we're more accustomed to the inverse combinations. 2/2

: Meanwhile, I was thinking - for distraction & by way of the omnipresent Dylan movie - abt whether or not one needs to have an authentic core to which to be true for it to be possible to "remain true to oneself" by refusing to conform. It may appear as though the question is tautological. 1/3

Hey look! It’s Orlando’s library!

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Happy Thanksgiving, everybody! Even if you're not in the US.

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Still not sure how to interact with 300+ strangers. Say something controversial for the philosophers? (Hume is just completely wrong on causation!) Announce my love for the Persuasions? youtu.be/ZDDGyOJQohc?...

2/2 For starters, if you're following me & reading this, why not drop a reply saying what you're working on or thinking about or generally up to? Plus, I don't know, a link to a song or painting that you love. Something like that.

Hey! I looked up & found 249 followers! Posting to strangers is a new experience, as I had a locked account on the-platform-formerly-known-as-Twitter, so only posted to ppl I at least sort of knew. So: hi! I'm optimistic that I will figure out a nice way to build a little community here. 1/2

: FB is down so I thought that I'd come over here today. But I hardly know anyone over here ... . Still, if you see this: hi!