This focus of Philosophical Inquiries is devoted to Barbara Vetter’s Potentiality: From Dispositions to Modality (Oxford University Press, 2015). In her book, Vetter offers an account of (certain) modalities in terms of the dispositions of certain entities; examples of these dispositions are a glass’ fragility, or a rubber band’s elasticity. More specifically, Vetter’s account aims to explain metaphysical possibility and necessity in terms of a generalized notion of dispositionality. She refers to such notion as potentiality
Essays on Barbara Vetter’s Potentiality: Introduction / A. Borghini, L. Azzano. - In: PHILOSOPHICAL INQUIRIES. - ISSN 2282-0248. - 8:1(2020), pp. 3-14. [10.4454/philinq.v8i1.275]
Essays on Barbara Vetter’s Potentiality: Introduction
A. Borghini;
2020
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This focus of Philosophical Inquiries is devoted to Barbara Vetter’s Potentiality: From Dispositions to Modality (Oxford University Press, 2015). In her book, Vetter offers an account of (certain) modalities in terms of the dispositions of certain entities; examples of these dispositions are a glass’ fragility, or a rubber band’s elasticity. More specifically, Vetter’s account aims to explain metaphysical possibility and necessity in terms of a generalized notion of dispositionality. She refers to such notion as potentialityFile | Dimensione | Formato | |
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