{"product_id":"potentiality-from-dispositions-to-modality-paperback","title":"Potentiality: From Dispositions to Modality - Paperback","description":"\u003cp\u003eby \u003cb\u003eBarbara Vetter\u003c\/b\u003e (Author)\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eIndividual objects have potentials: paper has the potential to burn, an acorn has the potential to turn into a tree, some people have the potential to run a mile in less than four minutes. Barbara Vetter provides a systematic investigation into the metaphysics of such potentials, and an account of metaphysical modality based on them. \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eIn contemporary philosophy, potentials have been recognized mostly in the form of so-called dispositions: solubility, fragility, and so on. Vetter takes dispositions as her starting point, but argues for and develops a more comprehensive conception of potentiality. She shows how, with this more comprehensive conception, an account of metaphysical modality can be given that meets three crucial requirements: (1) Extensional correctness: providing the right truth-values for statements of possibility and necessity; (2) formal adequacy: providing the right logic for metaphysical modality; and (3) semantic utility: providing a semantics that links ordinary modal language to the metaphysics of modality. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eThe resulting view of modality is a version of dispositionalism about modality: it takes modality to be a matter of the dispositions of individual objects (and, crucially, not of possible worlds). This approach has a long philosophical tradition going back to Aristotle, but has been largely neglected in contemporary philosophy. In recent years, it has become a live option again due to the rise of anti-Humean, powers-based metaphysics. The aim of \u003cem\u003ePotentiality and Possibility\u003c\/em\u003e is to develop the dispositionalist view in a way that takes account of contemporary developments in metaphysics, logic, and semantics.\u003cbr\u003e\u003ch3\u003eAuthor Biography\u003c\/h3\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cbr\u003eBarbara Vetter, \u003cem\u003eHumboldt-Universitat zu Berlin\u003c\/em\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eBarbara Vetter has a BPhil and a DPhil in Philosophy from the University of Oxford and is now a junior professor for theoretical philosophy at Humboldt-University, Berlin.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eNumber of Pages:\u003c\/strong\u003e 352\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eDimensions:\u003c\/strong\u003e 0.9 x 9.1 x 6.1 IN\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003ePublication Date:\u003c\/strong\u003e November 30, 2018\u003c\/div\u003e","brand":"Books by splitShops","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":42724578263103,"sku":"9780198825869","price":90.26,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0105\/8226\/1823\/files\/1cd7a1e9bc89317039eadbb96bddc777.webp?v=1765103153","url":"https:\/\/dhlswag.com\/products\/potentiality-from-dispositions-to-modality-paperback","provider":"BBB","version":"1.0","type":"link"}