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In Defence of Pan-Dispositionalism
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The authors defend Pan-Dispositionalism against moderate Dispositionalisms, arguing that not all properties are irreducibly dispositional, but not all relations are either The authors.Abstract:
Pan-Dispositionalism – the view that all properties (and relations) are irreducibly dispositional – currently appears to have no takers amongst major analytic metaphysicians. There are those, such as Mumford, who are open to the idea but remain uncommitted. And there are those, such as Ellis and Molnar, who accept that some properties are irreducibly dispositional but argue that not all are. In this paper, I defend Pan-Dispositionalism against this ‘Moderate’ Dispositionalism.read more
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