Dispositionalism, perhaps the most popular variant of non-Humean
metaphysics, submits that dispositions, powers, or capacities, are
part of the furniture of the world. In this book I advance an original
approach to dispositionalism revolving around the notion of
Dispositional Reality; the novelty lies in the fact that the account,
unlike most alternatives on the market, does not require the
reification of objects, facts, properties, nor their dispositional
essences – and is in fact compatible with a far more deflationary
approach to dispositions, while still being true to the non-Humean
spirit of the proposal. This power metaphysics without powers allows
one to dispel several puzzles in recent literature, or recast them
under a new light. Albeit with its own peculiarities, this proposal
constitutes a variant of explanatory dispositionalism, according to
which realism about dispositions ought not to be understood as an
ontological inflation, but as an explanatory inversion within thenomic
and modal family. Some of these explanations are hereby attempted, and
a study of various types of non-causal explanation will be provided.
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ISBN
9783031526251
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2024
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Springer
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Engelsk
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Digital bok
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