Dispositions And Powers (Elements In Metaphysics)
Cambridge University Press
ISBN13:
9781009113014
$26.08
As we understand them, dispositions are relatively uncontroversial 'predicatory' properties had by objects disposed in certain ways. By contrast, powers are hypothetical 'ontic' properties posited in order to explain dispositional behaviour. Chapter 1 outlines this distinction in more detail. Chapter 2 offers a summary of the issues surrounding analysis of dispositions and various strategies in contemporary literature to address them, including one of our own. Chapter 3 describes some of the important questions facing the metaphysics of powers including why they're worth positing, and how they might metaphysically explain laws of nature and modality.
- | Author: Toby Friend, Samuel Kimpton-Nye
- | Publisher: Cambridge University Press
- | Publication Date: Jul 20, 2023
- | Number of Pages: 92 pages
- | Language: English
- | Binding: Paperback
- | ISBN-10: 1009113011
- | ISBN-13: 9781009113014
- Author:
- Toby Friend, Samuel Kimpton-Nye
- Publisher:
- Cambridge University Press
- Publication Date:
- Jul 20, 2023
- Number of pages:
- 92 pages
- Language:
- English
- Binding:
- Paperback
- ISBN-10:
- 1009113011
- ISBN-13:
- 9781009113014