Dispositions and Powers by Toby Friend
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.-
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The Metaphysics of Logic
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Metaphysics of Causation
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Metaphysics and the Sciences
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Metaphysics of Race
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Abstract Objects
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Grounding, Fundamentality and Ultimate Explanations
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The Metaphysics of Gender
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Relations
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Persistence
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Properties
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Substance
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Chemistry's Metaphysics
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Modal Naturalism
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The Metaphysics of Color
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Social Ontology
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Neo-Aristotelian Metaphysics
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Metaontology
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Reduction, Emergence and the Metaphysics in Science
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Indeterminacy in the World
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Ontological Categories
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Teleology
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Identity
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Truthmaking
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Formal Ontology
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Parts and Wholes
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Laws of Nature
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Material Objects
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Essence
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Metaphysical Realism and Anti-Realism
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Time
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| ISBN 13 | 9781009113014 |
| ISBN 10 | 1009113011 |
| Title | Dispositions and Powers |
| Author | Toby Friend |
| Series | Elements In Metaphysics |
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| Binding Type | Paperback |
| Publisher | Cambridge University Press |
| Year published | 2023-07-20 |
| Number of pages | 75 |
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