To determine whether dispositions are causally relevant, we have to get clear about what causal relevance is. Several characteristics of causal relevance have been suggested, including Explanatory Power, Counterfactual Dependence, Lawfulness, Exclusion, Independence, and Minimal Sufficiency. Different accounts will yield different answers about the causal relevance of dispositions. However, accounts of causal relevance that are the most plausible, for independent reasons, render the verdict that dispositions are causally relevant
Dispositionality and causation are both modal concepts which have implications not just for how thin...
Many philosophers think that dispositions are necessarily intrinsic. However, there are no good posi...
In this paper, I argue in favor of necessitarianism, the view that dispositions, when stimulated, ne...
Disposition terms, such as \u27cowardice,\u27 \u27fragility\u27 and \u27reactivity,\u27 often appear...
According to a model defended by some authors, dispositional predicates, or concepts, can be legitim...
In this paper, I distinguish two often-conflated theses-the thesis that all dispositions are intrins...
Independently of whether dispositions are understood as essential potencies, powers or mere capaciti...
International audienceMany predicates are dispositional. Some show this by a suffix like “-ible”, -u...
Quine claimed that dispensing with disposition terms, such as “intelligent” or even “water-soluble,”...
Indicative conditionals and tendency causal claims are closely related to each other (e.g., Frosch a...
Dispositions are everywhere. We say that a wall is hard, that water quenches thirst and is transpare...
In this paper we argue that the antecedent of a (non-analytic) conditional is causally relevant to t...
Elizabeth Prior advanced a theory of dispositions which is still considered to be an orthodox view. ...
For the last several decades, dispositional properties have been one of the main topics in metaphysi...
Dispositionality and causation are both modal concepts which have implications not just for how thin...
Many philosophers think that dispositions are necessarily intrinsic. However, there are no good posi...
In this paper, I argue in favor of necessitarianism, the view that dispositions, when stimulated, ne...
Disposition terms, such as \u27cowardice,\u27 \u27fragility\u27 and \u27reactivity,\u27 often appear...
According to a model defended by some authors, dispositional predicates, or concepts, can be legitim...
In this paper, I distinguish two often-conflated theses-the thesis that all dispositions are intrins...
Independently of whether dispositions are understood as essential potencies, powers or mere capaciti...
International audienceMany predicates are dispositional. Some show this by a suffix like “-ible”, -u...
Quine claimed that dispensing with disposition terms, such as “intelligent” or even “water-soluble,”...
Indicative conditionals and tendency causal claims are closely related to each other (e.g., Frosch a...
Dispositions are everywhere. We say that a wall is hard, that water quenches thirst and is transpare...
In this paper we argue that the antecedent of a (non-analytic) conditional is causally relevant to t...
Elizabeth Prior advanced a theory of dispositions which is still considered to be an orthodox view. ...
For the last several decades, dispositional properties have been one of the main topics in metaphysi...
Dispositionality and causation are both modal concepts which have implications not just for how thin...
Many philosophers think that dispositions are necessarily intrinsic. However, there are no good posi...
In this paper, I argue in favor of necessitarianism, the view that dispositions, when stimulated, ne...