What Tends to Be: The Philosophy of Dispositional Modality - Tapa dura

Lill Anjum, Rani; Mumford, Stephen

 
9781138541979: What Tends to Be: The Philosophy of Dispositional Modality
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ISBN 10: 1138541974 ISBN 13: 9781138541979
Editorial: Routledge, 2018

Sinopsis

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 way but could be another? Is there a position between necessity and possibility? If there is, what are the implications for science, knowledge and ethics?

This book explores these questions and is the first full-length treatment of the philosophy of tendencies. Anjum and Mumford argue that although the philosophical language of tendencies has been around since Aristotle, there has not been any serious commitment to the irreducible modality that they involve. They also argue that the acceptance of an irreducible and sui generis tendential modality ought to be the fundamental commitment of any genuine realism about dispositions or powers. It is the dispositional modality that makes dispositions authentically disposition-like. Armed with this theory the authors apply it to a variety of key philosophical topics such as chance, causation, epistemology and free will.

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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.

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Editorial
Routledge
Año de publicación
2018
Idioma
Inglés
ISBN 10 
1138541974
ISBN 13 
9781138541979
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Número de edición
1
Número de páginas
194
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