Overview
- The first book to outline a clear meta-metaphysical foundation for power metaphysics
- Offers a novel and intuitive approach to anti-Humeanism, in the form of a wholly original dispositional treatment
- Provides an innovative power metaphysics that does not require properties, objects, or facts
Part of the book series: Synthese Library (SYLI, volume 482)
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Dispositionalism, perhaps the most popular variant of non-Humean metaphysics, submits that dispositions, powers, or capacities, are part of the furniture of the world. In this book I advance an original approach to dispositionalism revolving around the notion of Dispositional Reality; the novelty lies in the fact that the account, unlike most alternatives on the market, does not require the reification of objects, facts, properties, nor their dispositional essences – and is in fact compatible with a far more deflationary approach to dispositions, while still being true to the non-Humean spirit of the proposal. This power metaphysics without powers allows one to dispel several puzzles in recent literature, or recast them under a new light. Albeit with its own peculiarities, this proposal constitutes a variant of explanatory dispositionalism, according to which realism about dispositions ought not to be understood as an ontological inflation, but as an explanatory inversion within thenomic and modal family. Some of these explanations are hereby attempted, and a study of various types of non-causal explanation will be provided.
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Book Title: Dispositional Reality
Book Subtitle: A Novel Approach to Power Ontology and Metaphysics
Authors: Lorenzo Azzano
Series Title: Synthese Library
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-031-52625-1
Publisher: Springer Cham
eBook Packages: Religion and Philosophy, Philosophy and Religion (R0)
Copyright Information: The Editor(s) (if applicable) and The Author(s), under exclusive license to Springer Nature Switzerland AG 2024
Hardcover ISBN: 978-3-031-52624-4Published: 02 March 2024
Softcover ISBN: 978-3-031-52627-5Due: 02 April 2024
eBook ISBN: 978-3-031-52625-1Published: 01 March 2024
Series ISSN: 0166-6991
Series E-ISSN: 2542-8292
Edition Number: 1
Number of Pages: XI, 246
Number of Illustrations: 1 b/w illustrations
Topics: Metaphysics, Ontology, Philosophy of Science