TY  - BOOK
AU  - Friend,Toby
AU  - Kimpton-Nye,Samuel
TI  - Dispositions and powers
T2  - Cambridge elements. Elements in metaphysics,
SN  - 9781009118910 (ebook)
AV  - B105.D56 F75 2023
U1  - 303.3 23/eng/20230420
PY  - 2023///
CY  - Cambridge, United Kingdom, New York, NY, USA
PB  - Cambridge University Press
KW  - Disposition (Philosophy)
KW  - Power (Philosophy)
N1  - Title from publisher's bibliographic system (viewed on 10 Jul 2023); Open Access
N2  - 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
UR  - https://doi.org/10.1017/9781009118910
ER  -