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Dispositions: A Debate

Published 22 July 1996
D. M. Armstrong, C. B. Martin, Ullin T. Place, Tim Crane
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TL;DR

Dispositions: A Debate is an extended dialogue between three distinguished philosophers on the many problems associated with dispositions, which reveals their own distinctive accounts of the nature of dispositions.

Abstract

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.

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Arts and Humanities