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Routledge
315 Pages
by
Routledge
315 Pages
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Routledge
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Dispositions are everywhere. We say that a wall is hard, that water quenches thirst and is transparent, that dogs can swim and oak trees can let their leaves fall, and that acid has the power to corrode metals. All these statements express attributions of dispositions, be they physical, physiological or psychological, yet there is much philosophical debate about how far, if at all, dispositional... Read more
Introduction; 1: The Metaphysics of Dispositions and Causal Powers; 1: Dispositions and Counterfactuals. From Carnap to Goodman's Children and Grandchildren; 2: Filled In Space; 3: Dispositions and Essences; 4: The Causal Efficacy of Macroscopic Dispositional Properties; 5: Opium's Virtus Dormitiva; 6: Conditional Possibility; 7: On Ascribing Dispositions; 2: Dispositions and Causal Powers in Science; 8: An Extended Semantic Field of Dispositions and the Grounding Role of Causal Powers; 9: What Makes a Capacity a Disposition?; 10: Causation, Laws and Dispositions; 11: Can Capacities Rescue us from Ceteris Paribus Laws?; 12: Dispositions, Relational Properties and the Quantum World; 13: Are Specific Heats Dispositions?
Biography
Max Kistler is Lecturer in the Department of Philosophy at the University Paris X-Nanterre, France, and is also affiliated to Institut Jean Nicod, Paris, France. Bruno Gnassounou is from Department of Philosophy at the Université de Nantes, France.
