Dispositionalism and the Metaphysics of Science
Dispositionalism and the Metaphysics of Science
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Author(s): Dumsday, Travis
ISBN No.: 9781108480130
Pages: 228
Year: 201901
Format: Trade Cloth (Hard Cover)
Price: $ 160.45
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Status: Available

Dispositionalism is the view that causal powers are among the irreducible properties of nature. It has long been among the core competing positions in the metaphysics of laws, but its potential implications for other key debates within metaphysics and the philosophy of science have remained under-explored. Travis Dumsday fills this major gap in the literature by establishing new connections between dispositionalism and such topics as substance ontology, ontic structural realism, material composition, emergentism, natural-kind essentialism, perdurantism, time travel, and spacetime substantivalism. He also puts forward a novel view concerning the precise relationship between causal powers and the fundamental laws of nature. His rich and accessible study will appeal to readers interested in contemporary analytic metaphysics and philosophy of science.


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