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Handbook of Potentiality (Hardcover, 1st ed. 2018)
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Handbook of Potentiality (Hardcover, 1st ed. 2018)
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This volume congregates articles of leading philosophers about
potentials and potentiality in all areas of philosophy and the
empirical sciences in which they play a relevant role. It is the
first encompassing collection of articles on the metaphysics of
potentials and potentiality. Potentials play an important role not
only in our everyday understanding of objects, persons and systems
but also in the sciences. An example is the potential to become an
adult human person. Moreover, the attribution of potentials
involves crucial ethical problems. Bioethics makes references to
the theoretical concept "potential" without being able to clarify
its meaning. However, despite its relevance it has not been made
subject of philosophical investigation. Mostly, potentials are
regarded as a subspecies of dispositions. Whilst dispositions are a
flourishing field of research, potentials as such have not come
into focus. Potentials like dispositions are modal properties. But
already a first glance at the metaphysics of potentials shows that
concerning their ascription potentials are more problematic than
dispositions since "potential" means that an entity has the
potential to acquire a property in the future. Therefore,
potentials involve a time structure of the entities in question
that is much more complex than those of dispositions. This handbook
brings this important concept into focus in its various aspects for
the first time. It covers the history of the concept as well as
contemporary systematic problems and will be of special interest
for philosophers in the fields of general metaphysics, philosophy
of science and ethics, especially bioethics. It will also be of
interest to scientists and persons concerned with bioethical
problems.
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