Debating dispositions
Subtitle: issues in metaphysics, epistemology, and philosophy of mind
By: edited by Gregor Damschen, Robert Schnepf, and Karsten R. Stüber.
Contributors: Damschen, Gregor.; Schnepf, Robert.; Stüber, Karsten.
Publisher: Walter de Gruyter; De Gruyter; Walter de Gruyter Inc.
Published: 2009
Place of publication: Berlin; New York
Language: eng
Number of pages: 344
ISBN-13: 9783110184037
Subjects: Disposition (Philosophy)
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: Knowledge and virtue as dispositions in Plato's Theatetus / Francisco J. Gonzalez; title: Aristotle's theory of dispositions : from the principle of movement to the unmoved mover / Ludger Jansen; title: Dispositions in Greek historiography / Burkhard Meissner; title: The dispositions of Descartes / Peter Machamer; title: Explicable explainers : the problem of mental dispositions in Spinoza's ethics /  Ursula Renz; title: Harmonizing modern physics with Aristotelian metaphysics : Leibniz's theory of force /  Michael-Thomas Liske; title: From ordinary language to the metaphysics of dispositions : Gilbert Ryle on disposition talk and dispositions / Oliver R. Scholz; title: Hic rhodos, hic salta : from reductionist semantics to a realist ontology of forceful dispositions / Markus Schrenk; title: Ascribing dispositions / Stephen Mumford; title: Dispositional pluralism / Jennifer McKitrick; title: Dispositions and their intentions / Andrea Borghini; title: The role of dispositions in scientific and philosophical dispositions in physics / Andreas Hüttemann; title: The role of dispositions in historical explanations / Robert Schnepf; title: Empathy, mental dispositions, and the physicalist challenge / Karsten Stüber; title: Dispositional knowledge-how versus propositional knowledge-that / Gregor Damschen; title: Epistemic virtues and cognitive dispositions / David Henderson and Terry Horgan; title: The epistemic function of virtuous dispositions / Elke Brendel.