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Potentiality - From Dispositions to Modality (Hardcover)
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Potentiality - From Dispositions to Modality (Hardcover)
Series: Oxford Philosophical Monographs
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Individual objects have potentials: paper has the potential to
burn, an acorn has the potential to turn into a tree, some people
have the potential to run a mile in less than four minutes. Barbara
Vetter provides a systematic investigation into the metaphysics of
such potentials, and an account of metaphysical modality based on
them. In contemporary philosophy, potentials have been recognized
mostly in the form of so-called dispositions: solubility,
fragility, and so on. Vetter takes dispositions as her starting
point, but argues for and develops a more comprehensive conception
of potentiality. She shows how, with this more comprehensive
conception, an account of metaphysical modality can be given that
meets three crucial requirements: (1) Extensional correctness:
providing the right truth-values for statements of possibility and
necessity; (2) formal adequacy: providing the right logic for
metaphysical modality; and (3) semantic utility: providing a
semantics that links ordinary modal language to the metaphysics of
modality. The resulting view of modality is a version of
dispositionalism about modality: it takes modality to be a matter
of the dispositions of individual objects (and, crucially, not of
possible worlds). This approach has a long philosophical tradition
going back to Aristotle, but has been largely neglected in
contemporary philosophy. In recent years, it has become a live
option again due to the rise of anti-Humean, powers-based
metaphysics. The aim of Potentiality is to develop the
dispositionalist view in a way that takes account of contemporary
developments in metaphysics, logic, and semantics.
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