What Tends to Be: The Philosophy of Dispositional Modality

ISBN-13: 9781138541979 / Angielski / Twarda / 2018 / 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