Contents -- List of Contributors -- 1. The Metaphysics of Dispositions and Causes -- 2. Dispositions, Causes, and Reduction -- 3. Causal Structuralism, Dispositional Actualism, and Counterfactual Conditionals -- 4. Leaving Things to Take their Chances: Cause and Disposition Grounded in Chance -- 5. Causal Laws, Policy Predictions, and the Need for Genuine Powers -- 6. How is Scientific Analysis Possible? -- 7. Agent-Causal Power -- 8. Structural Properties Revisited -- 9. Causal Nominalism -- 10. Why do the Laws Explain Why? -- References -- Index -- A -- B -- C -- D -- E -- F -- G -- H -- I -- J -- K -- L -- M -- N -- O -- P -- Q -- R -- S -- T -- U -- V -- W -- Y.