Dispositions : a debate / D.M. Armstrong, C.B. Martin, and U.T. Place ; edited and with an introduction by Tim Crane.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Armstrong, D. M. (David Malet), 1926-2014, author.

Contributor:

Martin, C. B. (Charles Burton)

Place, U. T. (Ullin Thomas), 1924-2000.

Crane, Tim.

Series:

International library of philosophy.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Disposition (Philosophy).

Physical Description:

1 online resource (206 pages)

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

London ; New York : Routledge, 1996.

Summary:

Dispositions are essential to our understanding of the world. Dispositions: A Debate is an extended dialogue between three distinguished philosophers - D.M. Armstrong, C.B. Martin and U.T. Place - on the many problems associated with dispositions, which reveals their own distinctive accounts of the nature of dispositions. These are then linked to other issues such as the nature of mind, matter, universals, existence, laws of nature and causation.

Contents:

1. Dispositions as Categorical States / D. M. Armstrong

2. Dispositions as Intentional States / U. T. Place

3. Place's and Armstrong's Views Compared and Contrasted / D. M. Armstrong

4. A Conceptualist Ontology / U. T. Place

5. Properties and Dispositions / C. B. Martin

6. Reply to Martin / D. M. Armstrong

7. Structural Properties: Categorical, Dispositional or Both? / U. T. Place

8. Replies to Armstrong and Place / C. B. Martin

9. Second Reply to Martin / D. M. Armstrong

10. Conceptualism and the Ontological Independence of Cause and Effect / U. T. Place

11. Final Replies to Place and Armstrong / C. B. Martin.

Notes:

Description based upon print version of record.

Includes bibliographical references.

ISBN:

1-280-33481-9

1-134-76129-5

1-134-76128-7

0-415-17368-X

1-280-33459-2

0-203-00487-6

9780203004876

OCLC:

264517538