Potentiality: from dispositions to modality

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 metap...

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1. Verfasser: Vetter, Barbara 1982- (VerfasserIn)
Format: Elektronisch E-Book
Sprache:English
Veröffentlicht: Oxford Oxford University Press 2015
Schriftenreihe:Oxford philosophical monographs
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Zusammenfassung: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
ISBN:9780191782718
DOI:10.1093/acprof:oso/9780198714316.001.0001

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