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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Auteur principal: Vetter, Barbara 1982- (Auteur)
Format: Livre
Langue:English
Publié: New York, NY Oxford University Press 2015.
Collection:Oxford philosophical monographs
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