Dispositions : a debate / D.M. Armstrong, C.B. Martin, and U.T. Place ; edited and with an introduction by Tim Crane.

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Armstrong, D. M. (David Malet), 1926-2014

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TextSeries: International library of philosophyPublication details: London ; New York : Routledge, 1996.Description: 1 online resource (viii, 197 pages)Content type:

text

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computer

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online resource

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0203004876
9780203004876
9780415144322
0415144329

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Additional physical formats: Print version:: Dispositions.DDC classification:

111/.1 20

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BD374 .A75 1996eb

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08.31

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Contents:

Chapter INTRODUCTION -- part Part I THE ARMSTRONG-PLACE DEBATE -- chapter 1 DISPOSITIONS AS CATEGORICAL STATES / D.M. Armstrong -- chapter 2 DISPOSITIONS AS INTENTIONAL STATES / U.T. Place -- chapter 3 PLACE'S AND ARMSTRONG'S VIEWS COMPARED AND CONTRASTED / D.M. Armstrong -- chapter 4 A CONCEPTUALIST ONTOLOGY / U.T. Place -- part Part II THE MARTIN-ARMSTRONG-PLACE DEBATE -- chapter 5 PROPERTIES AND DISPOSITIONS / C.B. Martin -- chapter 6 REPLY TO MARTIN / D.M. Armstrong -- chapter 7 STRUCTURAL PROPERTIES -- Categorical, dispositional or both? / U.T. Place -- chapter 8 REPLIES TO ARMSTRONG AND PLACE / C.B. Martin -- chapter 9 SECOND REPLY TO MARTIN / D.M. Armstrong -- chapter 10 CONCEPTUALISM AND THE ONTOLOGICAL INDEPENDENCE OF CAUSE AND EFFECT / U.T. Place -- chapter 11 FINAL REPLIES TO PLACE AND ARMSTRONG / C.B. Martin.

Summary: 'Why did the window break when it was hit by the stone? Because the window is brittle and the stone is hard; hardness and brittleness are powers, dispositional properties or dispositions.'. Dispositions are essential to our understanding of the world. This book is a record of the debate on the nature of dispositions between three distinguished philosophers - D.M. Armstrong, C.B. Martin and U.T. Place - who have been thinking about dispositions all their working lives. Their distinctive accounts cover many of the issues surrounding dispositions such as the nature of mind, matter, universals, existence, laws of nature and causation. Dispositions illuminates this central topic in analytic philosophy and at the same time highlights deeper concerns of metaphysics.

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'Why did the window break when it was hit by the stone? Because the window is brittle and the stone is hard; hardness and brittleness are powers, dispositional properties or dispositions.'. Dispositions are essential to our understanding of the world. This book is a record of the debate on the nature of dispositions between three distinguished philosophers - D.M. Armstrong, C.B. Martin and U.T. Place - who have been thinking about dispositions all their working lives. Their distinctive accounts cover many of the issues surrounding dispositions such as the nature of mind, matter, universals, existence, laws of nature and causation. Dispositions illuminates this central topic in analytic philosophy and at the same time highlights deeper concerns of metaphysics.

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