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What Tends to Be: The Philosophy of Dispositional Modality book cover

1st Edition

What Tends to Be The Philosophy of Dispositional Modality

By Rani Lill Anjum, Stephen Mumford Copyright 2018
208 Pages
by Routledge

206 Pages
by Routledge

206 Pages
by Routledge
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People tend to enjoy listening to music or watching television, sleeping at night and celebrating birthdays. Plants tend to grow and thrive in sunlight and mild temperatures. We also know that tendencies are not perfectly regular and that there are patterns in the natural world, which are reliable to a degree, but not absolute. What should we make of a world where things tend to be one... Read more
Preface  Part I: Modality  1. Theory: Introducing the dispositional modality  2. History: Forebears of the dispositional modality  Part II: Metaphysics  3. Chance: Overdisposed  4. Causation: Causation and quantum mechanics (with Fredrik Andersen)  Part III: Logic  5. Conditionals: Carnap and the Anglo-Austrian conspiracy against dispositions  6. Conditional probability: Conditional probability from an ontological point of view (with Johan Arnt Myrstad)  Part IV: Epistemology  7. Perception: What we tend to see  8. Metascience: What we tend to know  Part V: Ethics  9. Value: Dispositions and ethics (with Svein Anders Noer Lie)  10. Free will: Causation is not your enemy.  Afterword  Bibliography  Index

Biography

Rani Lill Anjum is Research Fellow in Philosophy at the Norwegian University of Life Sciences, Ås, Norway.



Stephen Mumford is Professor of Philosophy at Durham University, UK and Professor II at the Norwegian University of Life Sciences, Ås, Norway.

"This is an admirable book. Anjum and Mumford advance a novel philosophical thesis, they defend it with rigour and ingenuity and explore uncharted territories. Given that the map of the area is currently being drawn there are bound to be inaccuracies and infelicities. But that's the fate of all explorers, philosophical or otherwise. Despite our critical points, Anjum and Mumford have succeeded in producing a thorough, deep and challenging exploration of these metaphysical matters." - Stathis Psillos and Stavros Ioannidis, Notre Dame Philosophical Reviews

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