Potentiality
Subtitle: From Dispositions to Modality
Publisher: Oxford University Press
Published: Apr 12, 2015
Language: eng
Format: hardcover
Number of pages: 272
ISBN-13: 9780198714316
Description: Individual objects have potentials: paper has the potential to burn; an acorn has the potential to turn into a tree. Barbara Vetter investigates the metaphysics of such potentials, and develops a dispositionalist view of metaphysical modality which takes account of contemporary developments in metaphysics, logic, and semantics.
Notes: Source title: Potentiality: From Dispositions to Modality (Oxford Philosophical Monographs)