Cargando…

Debating dispositions : issues in metaphysics, epistemology and philosophy of mind /

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...

Descripción completa

Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Otros Autores: Damschen, Gregor, Schnepf, Robert, Stüber, Karsten
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Berlin ; New York : Walter de Gruyter, ©2009.
Temas:
Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • Knowledge and virtue as dispositions in Plato's Theatetus / Francisco J. Gonzalez
  • Aristotle's theory of dispositions : from the principle of movement to the unmoved mover / Ludger Jansen
  • Dispositions in Greek historiography / Burkhard Meißner
  • The dispositions of Descartes / Peter Machamer
  • Explicable explainers : the problem of mental dispositions in Spinoza's Ethics / Ursula Renz
  • Harmonizing modern physics with Aristotelian metaphysics : Leibniz's theory of force / Michael-Thomas Liske
  • From ordinary language to the metaphysics of dispositions : Gilbert Ryle on disposition talk and dispositions / Oliver R. Scholz
  • Hic rhodos, hic salta : from reductionist semantics to a realist ontology of forceful dispositions / Markus Schrenk
  • Ascribing dispositions / Stephen Mumford
  • Dispositional pluralism / Jennifer McKitrick
  • Dispositions and their intentions / Andrea Borghini
  • Dispositions in physics / Andreas Hüttemann
  • The role of dispositions in historical explanations / Robert Schnepf
  • Empathy, mental dispositions, and the physicalist challenge / Karsten Steuber
  • Dispositional knowledge-how versus propositional knowledge-that / Gregor Damschen
  • Epistemic virtues and cognitive dispositions / David Henderson and Terry Horgan
  • The epistemic function of virtuous dispositions / Elke Brendel.