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Dispositions and Powers

Dispositions and Powers

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Chapter 1 explains the distinction between dispositions and powers, while Chapter 2 offers a summary of the issues surrounding their analysis. Chapter 3 discusses the metaphysics of powers, including why they are worth positing and how they can explain laws of nature and modality.

Format: Paperback / softback
Length: 75 pages
Publication date: 20 July 2023
Publisher: Cambridge University Press


Dispositions are relatively uncontroversial and predicatory properties possessed by objects disposed in certain ways. In contrast, powers are hypothetical and ontic properties posited to explain dispositional behavior. Chapter 1 outlines this distinction in greater detail. Chapter 2 provides a summary of the issues surrounding the analysis of dispositions and various strategies in contemporary literature to address them, including one of our own. Chapter 3 explores some of the critical questions facing the metaphysics of powers, such as why they are worth positing and how they might metaphysically explain laws of nature and modality. This title is also available as Open Access on Cambridge Core.

Dispositions are relatively uncontroversial and predicatory properties possessed by objects disposed in certain ways. In contrast, powers are hypothetical and ontic properties posited to explain dispositional behavior. Chapter 1 outlines this distinction in greater detail. Chapter 2 provides a summary of the issues surrounding the analysis of dispositions and various strategies in contemporary literature to address them, including one of our own. Chapter 3 explores some of the critical questions facing the metaphysics of powers, such as why they are worth positing and how they might metaphysically explain laws of nature and modality.


ISBN-13: 9781009113014

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