Debating Dispositions : : Issues in Metaphysics, Epistemology and Philosophy of Mind /

Debating Dispositions : : Issues in Metaphysics, Epistemology and Philosophy of Mind / / Gregor Damschen, Robert Schnepf, Karsten Stüber.

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Ordinary language and scientific discourse are filled with linguistic expressions for dispositional properties such as "soluble," "elastic," "reliable," and "humorous." We characterize objects in all domains - physical objects as well as human persons - with t...

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Superior document:Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter DGBA Backlist Complete English Language 2000-2014 PART1
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Damschen, Gregor,
Schnepf, Robert,
Stüber, Karsten,
Place / Publishing House:Berlin ;, Boston : : De Gruyter, , [2009]
©2009
Year of Publication:2009
Language:English
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Physical Description:1 online resource (361 p.)
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Table of Contents:
  • Frontmatter
  • Table of Contents
  • I. The Discovery of Dispositions: Ancient Foundations
  • Knowledge and Virtue as Dispositions in Plato's Theaetetus / Gonzalez, Francisco J.
  • Aristotle's Theory of Dispositions From the Principle of Movement to the Unmoved Mover / Jansen, Ludger
  • Dispositions in Greek Historiography / Meissner, Burkhard
  • II. The Debate about Dispositions from the Beginning of Modern Sciences to the 20th century
  • The Dispositions of Descartesc / Machamer, Peter
  • Explicable Explainers: the Problem of Mental Dispositions in Spinoza's Ethics / Renz, Ursula
  • Harmonizing Modern Physics with Aristotelian Metaphysics. Leibniz's Theory of Force / Liske, Michael-Thomas
  • From Ordinary Language to the Metaphysics of Dispositions - Gilbert Ryle on Disposition Talk and Dispositions / Scholz, Oliver R.
  • III. Contemporary Philosophical Analyses of Dispositions
  • Hic Rhodos, Hic Salta: From Reductionist Semantics to a Realist Ontology of Forceful Dispositions / Schrenk, Markus
  • Ascribing Dispositions / Mumford, Stephan
  • Dispositional Pluralism / McKitrick, Jennifer
  • Dispositions and Their Intentions / Borghini, Andrea
  • IV. The Role of Dispositions in Scientific and Philosophical Contexts
  • Dispositions in Physics / Hüttemann, Andreas
  • The Role of Dispositions in Historical Explanations / Schnepf, Robert
  • Empathy, Mental Dispositions, and the Physicalist Challenge / Stueber, Karsten
  • Dispositional Knowledge-How versus Propositional Knowledge-That / Damschen, Gregor
  • Epistemic Virtues and Cognitive Dispositions / Henderson, David / Horgan, Terry
  • The Epistemic Function of Virtuous Dispositions / Brendel, Elke
  • Backmatter

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