Reading list and additional resources
General background
Monographs:
Bird, Nature's Metaphysics, OUP 2007
Harré and Madden, Causal Powers. Theory of Natural Necessity, Blackwell 1975
Heil, From an Ontological Point of View, OUP 2003
Heil, The Universe As We Find It, OUP 2012
Jaworski, Philosophy of Mind: A Comprehensive Introduction, Wiley 2011
Molnar, Powers: A Study in Metaphysics, OUP 2003
Mumford, Dispositions, OUP 1998
Mumford & Anjum, Getting Causes from Powers, OUP 2011
Vetter, Potentiality. From Dispositions to Modality, OUP 2015
Edited collections spanning a variety of relevant topics:
Bird, Ellis and Sankey, Properties, Powers and Structures, Routledge 2011
Groff&Greco, Powers and Capacities in Philosophy. The new Aristotelianism. Routledge 2013
Marmodoro, The Metaphysics of Powers. Their Grounding and their Manifestation, Routledge 2010
The Monist. Volume 94, Issue 1 (special issue on powers), January 2011
Powers and Philosophy of Action
Clarke, Dispositions, Abilities to Act, and Free Will: The New Dispositionalism, Mind 2009 (118), 323 ff
Fara, Masked Abilities and Compatibilism, Mind 2008 (117), 843 ff.
Hacker, Human Nature. The Categorial Framework, Wiley-Blackwell 2010
Jacobs, "Agent Causation in a Neo-Aristotelian Metaphysics", with Timothy O'Connor in Mental Causation and Ontology, eds. S.C. Gibb, E.J. Lowe, and R Ingthorsson. OUP 2013
Kenny, The Metaphysics of Mind, Clarendon Press 1989
Lowe, Personal Agency: The Metaphysics of Mind and Action, OUP 2008
Maier, Abilities, Stanford Encyclopaedia of Philosophy 2010
Mayr, Understanding Human Agency, OUP 2011
Steward, A Metaphysics for Freedom, OUP 2012
Stout, Things That Happen Because They Should, OUP 1996
Vihvelin, Free Will Demystified: A Dispositional Account, Philosophical Topics 2004 (32), 427 ff.
Oxford Bibliographies: Dispositions
Powers and Perception
Bennett, J., Locke, Berkeley, Hume; Central Themes, Oxford University Press 1971.
Brewer, B., Perception and its Objects, Oxford University Press 2011.
Broadie, S., 'Aristotle's Perceptual Realism', in Ellis J. (ed.), Ancient Minds, The Southern Journal of Philosophy, suppl. vol. XXXI: 81-119. 1992. 137-59.
Dummett, M., “Common Sense and Philosophy”, in G. Macdonald (ed.), Perception and Identity, Macmillan 1979.
Esfeld, M., ‘Aristotle's Direct Realism in De Anima’, The Review of Metaphysics, Vol. 54, No. 2, 2000: 321-36.
Jacobs, "Powerful Qualities, not pure powers", The Monist, 2011, 94(1), pp. 81-102
Johansen, T. K., The Powers of Aristotle's Soul. Oxford University Press, 2012.
Macpherson, F., & Haddock, A., (eds), Disjunctivism: Perception, Action, Knowledge, Oxford University Press 2008.
Marmodoro, A., Aristotle on Perceiving Objects, Oxford University Press 2014.
McDowell, J., Mind, Value and Reality, Harvard University Press 2001.
Simmons, A., 'Explaining Sense-Perception: A Scholastic Challenge', Philosophical Studies 73 (1994) 257- 75.
Below are some additional resources which you may want to look through if you are interested.
Power Structuralism in Ancient Ontologies Project
Useful material on powers and structuralism
John Hawthorne, 'Causal Structuralism'
Stanford Encyclopaedia entry on Dispositions
Stanford Encyclopaedia entry on Structural Realism
Online Bibliographies
A bibliography for contemporary powers metaphysics can be found here.
The division of philpapers devoted to Dispositions and Powers is here.
The 'Dispositions' article in Oxford Bibliographies Online (subscription required) is here.
Podcasts
http://podcasts.ox.ac.uk/series/power-structuralism-ancient-ontologies
https://itunes.apple.com/gb/itunes-u/id503115470
