What Tends to Be: The Philosophy of Dispositional Modality

ISBN-13: 9780367590871 / Angielski / Miękka / 2020 / 194 str.

Rani Lill Anjum; Stephen Mumford

Opis

People tend to enjoy listening to music or watching television, sleeping at night and celebrating birthdays. What should we make of a world where things tend to be one way but could be another? This book explores these questions and is the first full-length treatment of the philosophy of tendencies.

Spis treści

Preface  Part I: Modality  1. Theory: Introducing the dispositional modality  2. History: Forebears of the dispositional modality  Part II: Metaphysics  3. Chance: Overdisposed  4. Causation: Causation and quantum mechanics (with Fredrik Andersen)  Part III: Logic  5. Conditionals: Carnap and the Anglo-Austrian conspiracy against dispositions  6. Conditional probability: Conditional probability from an ontological point of view (with Johan Arnt Myrstad)  Part IV: Epistemology  7. Perception: What we tend to see  8. Metascience: What we tend to know  Part V: Ethics  9. Value: Dispositions and ethics (with Svein Anders Noer Lie)  10. Free will: Causation is not your enemy.  Afterword  Bibliography  Index

O autorze

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.