Title: Debating dispositions : issues in metaphysics, epistemology and philosophy of mind /
Authors: Damschen, Gregor.; Schnepf, Robert.; Stüber, Karsten.
Publisher: Walter de Gruyter,
Year: 2009
Subjects: Disposition (Philosophy)
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.