Dispositions and powers /
Friend, Toby,
Dispositions and powers / Toby Friend, University of Bristol, Samuel Kimpton- Nye, University of Bristol. - 1 online resource (82 pages) : digital, PDF file(s). - Cambridge elements. Elements in metaphysics, 2633-9862 . - Cambridge elements. Elements in metaphysics, .
Title from publisher's bibliographic system (viewed on 10 Jul 2023).
Open Access.
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. This title is also available as Open Access on Cambridge Core.
9781009118910 (ebook)
Disposition (Philosophy)
Power (Philosophy)
B105.D56 / F75 2023
303.3
Dispositions and powers / Toby Friend, University of Bristol, Samuel Kimpton- Nye, University of Bristol. - 1 online resource (82 pages) : digital, PDF file(s). - Cambridge elements. Elements in metaphysics, 2633-9862 . - Cambridge elements. Elements in metaphysics, .
Title from publisher's bibliographic system (viewed on 10 Jul 2023).
Open Access.
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. This title is also available as Open Access on Cambridge Core.
9781009118910 (ebook)
Disposition (Philosophy)
Power (Philosophy)
B105.D56 / F75 2023
303.3