Titlebook: Dispositionalism; Perspectives from Me Anne Sophie Meincke Book 2020 Springer Nature Switzerland AG 2020 Carnap and the Anglo-Austrian Cons

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International Political Economy Serieswers as part of their account of dispositional causation. The purpose of this model is to represent powers as causes as well as to explain various features of their account of causation, for instance dispositionality, i.e., a sui generis type of modality introduced by their power-based ontology. In

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https://doi.org/10.1057/9780230595736uses E when C is the stimulus of some disposition of which E is the manifestation. Such an account suggests that causes are conditionally sufficient (rather than necessary) for their effects. I consider what semantics for subjunctive and counterfactual conditionals this requires, and examine the con

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International Political Economy Seriesof the symmetry principles that play such a fundamental role in the Standard Model of elementary particle physics. After considering certain ways the dispositionalist might get around this obstacle I shall argue that in its standard ‘Stimulus and Manifestation’ form, this stance should be abandoned.

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Wolfgang J. Junk,Maria Teresa F. Piedadee but David Oderberg’s theory of organic teleology provides a good place for the powers theorists to start. I argue that contemporary realism about powers is conducive to a teleological world view, regardless of whether one accepts the Aristotelian theory of substantial forms that Oderberg favours.

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Anne Sophie MeinckeElucidates the ontological profile of dispositionalism.Brings together perspectives from metaphysics and the philosophy of science.Collects essays written by both proponents of dispositionalism and sc