Debating dispositions issues in metaphysics, epistemology and philosophy of mind / edited by Gregor Damschen, Robert Schnepf and Karsten R. Stüber.

Other author Damschen, Gregor.
Other author Schnepf, Robert.
Other author Stüber, Karsten.
Format Electronic
Publication InfoBerlin ; New York : Walter de Gruyter,
Descriptionxvii, 344 p. ; 24 cm.
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Contents Knowledge and virtue as dispositions in Plato's Theatetus / Francisco J. Gonzalez -- Aristotle's theory of dispositions : from the principle of movement to the unmoved mover / Ludger Jansen -- Dispositions in Greek historiography / Burkhard Mei€ner -- The dispositions of Descartes / Peter Machamer -- Explicable explainers : the problem of mental dispositions in Spinoza's Ethics / Ursula Renz -- Harmonizing modern physics with Aristotelian metaphysics : Leibniz's theory of force / Michael-Thomas Liske -- From ordinary language to the metaphysics of dispositions : Gilbert Ryle on disposition talk and dispositions / Oliver R. Scholz -- Hic rhodos, hic salta : from reductionist semantics to a realist ontology of forceful dispositions / Markus Schrenk -- Ascribing dispositions / Stephen Mumford -- Dispositional pluralism / Jennifer McKitrick -- Dispositions and their intentions / Andrea Borghini -- Dispositions in physics / Andreas Hüttemann -- The role of dispositions in historical explanations / Robert Schnepf -- Empathy, mental dispositions, and the physicalist challenge / Karsten Steuber -- Dispositional knowledge-how versus propositional knowledge-that / Gregor Damschen -- Epistemic virtues and cognitive dispositions / David Henderson and Terry Horgan -- The epistemic function of virtuous dispositions / Elke Brendel.
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LCCN 2009049681
ISBN9783110184037 (hardcover : alk. paper)
ISBN3110184036 (hardcover : alk. paper)

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