What Tends to Be - The Philosophy of Dispositional Modality

People tend to enjoy listening to music or watching television, sleeping at night and celebrating birthdays. What should we make of a world where things tend to be one way but could be another? This book explores these questions and is the first full-length treatment of the philosophy of tendencies.

Sommario

PrefacePart I: Modality 1. Theory:Introducing the dispositional modality 2. History: Forebears of the dispositional modality Part II: Metaphysics 3. Chance: Overdisposed4. Causation: Causation and quantum mechanics (with Fredrik Andersen)Part III: Logic 5. Conditionals: Carnap and the Anglo-Austrian conspiracy against dispositions 6. Conditional probability: Conditional probability from an ontological point of view (with Johan Arnt Myrstad)Part IV: Epistemology 7. Perception: What we tend to see 8. Metascience: What we tend to knowPart V: Ethics 9. Value: Dispositions and ethics (with Svein Anders Noer Lie)10. Free will: Causation isnot your enemy. Afterword Bibliography Index

Info autore

Rani Lill Anjum is Research Fellow in Philosophy at the Norwegian University of Life Sciences, Ås, Norway.

Stephen Mumford is Professor of Philosophy at Durham University, UK and Professor II at the Norwegian University of Life Sciences, Ås, Norway.

Riassunto

People tend to enjoy listening to music or watching television, sleeping at night and celebrating birthdays. What should we make of a world where things tend to be one way but could be another? This book explores these questions and is the first full-length treatment of the philosophy of tendencies.

Dettagli sul prodotto

• Autori: Rani Lill Anjum, Rani Mumford Lill Anjum, Stephen Mumford, Mumford Stephen
• Editore: Taylor & Francis Ltd.
• Lingue: Inglese
• Formato: Tascabile
• Pubblicazione: 14.08.2020
• EAN: 9780367590871
• ISBN: 978-0-367-59087-1
• Pagine: 208
• Categorie: Saggistica > Filosofia, religione > Filosofia: tematiche generali, opere di consultazione; Scienze naturali, medicina, informatica, tecnica > Scienze naturali, tematiche generali; Scienze umane, arte, musica > Filosofia > Tematiche generali, enciclopedie; PHILOSOPHY / General, Philosophy: epistemology & theory of knowledge, Philosophy: epistemology and theory of knowledge