| Dispositions: A Debate Contributor(s): Armstrong, D. M. (Author), Martin, C. B. (Author), Place, U. T. (Author) |
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ISBN: 0415144329 ISBN-13: 9780415144322 Publisher: Routledge OUR PRICE: $152.00 Product Type: Hardcover - Other Formats Published: June 1996 Annotation: 'Why did the window break when it was hit by the stone? Because the window is brittle and the stone is hard; hardness and brittleness are powers, dispositional properties or dispositions.'. Dispositions are essential to our understanding of the world. This book is a record of the debate on the nature of dispositions between three distinguished philosophers - D. M. Armstrong, C. B. Martin and U. T. Place - who have been thinking about dispositions all their working lives. Their distinctive accounts cover many of the issues surrounding dispositions such as the nature of mind, matter, universals, existence, laws of nature and causation. Dispositions illuminates this central topic in analytic philosophy and at the same time highlights deeper concerns of metaphysics. |
| Additional Information |
| BISAC Categories: - Philosophy | Metaphysics |
| Dewey: 111.1 |
| LCCN: 95049477 |
| Series: International Library of Philosophy (Hardcover) |
| Physical Information: 0.63" H x 5.5" W x 8.5" (0.91 lbs) 208 pages |
| Descriptions, Reviews, Etc. |
| Publisher Description: Dispositions are essential to our understanding of the world. Dispositions: A Debate is an extended dialogue between three distinguished philosophers - D.M. Armstrong, C.B. Martin and U.T. Place - on the many problems associated with dispositions, which reveals their own distinctive accounts of the nature of dispositions. These are then linked to other issues such as the nature of mind, matter, universals, existence, laws of nature and causation. |