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Armstrong, D. M., Martin, C. B. and Place, U. T. (1996) Dispositions: a Debate, ed. T.
Crane, London: Routledge.
Debate between three different views on the ontology of dispositions. |
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Lewis, D. (1996) ‘Finkish Dispositions’, in Papers in Metaphysics and Epistemology, Cambridge: Cambridge University Press
1999, 133-51.
An attempt to repair the conditional analysis of dispositions. |
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Martin, C. B. (1994) ‘Dispositions and Conditionals', Philosophical Quarterly, 44: 1-8.
Introduces the controversial case of finkish dispositions, thereby challenging the conditional analysis. |
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Mellor, D. H. (1974) ‘In Defence of Dispositions’, in Matters of Metaphysics, Cambridge: Cambridge University Press
1991, 104-122.
Argues that the categorical is no more metaphysically respectable than the dispositional. |
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Molnar, G. (2003) Powers: a Study in Metaphysics, Oxford: Oxford University Press.
A defence of dualism that also offers intentionality as the mark of the dispositional. |
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Mumford, S. (1998) Dispositions, Oxford: Oxford University Press.
Defends the dispositional-categorical distinction as purely conceptual rather than ontological. |
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Plato (c.366-360
bc) ‘Sophist’, in Plato: Complete Works, ed. J.M.
Cooper, Indianapolis IN: Hackett
1997.
The visitor from Elea proposes his ‘reality-test’ at 247d-e. |
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Popper, K. (1959) The Logic of Scientific Discovery, London: Hutchinson.
Argues in appendix X that all properties are dispositional. |
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Prior, E. (1985) Dispositions, Aberdeen: Aberdeen University Press.
Develops a systematic dualist stance. |
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Ryle, G. (1949) The Concept of Mind, London: Hutchinson.
Examines the concept of a disposition and presents the basic conditional analysis. |
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Shoemaker, S. (1980) ‘Causality and Properties’, in Identity, Cause, and Mind, Oxford: Oxford University Press
2003.
An influential view of properties that is the modern origin of pan-dispositionalism. |