Are dispositions reducible?

Philosophical Quarterly

Volumn 49, Issue 194, 1999, Pages 1-17

  Molnar, George ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF SYDNEY   (Australia)

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EID: 0007294396     PISSN: 00318094     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/1467-9213.00125     Document Type: Article

References (19)

1. C.B. Martin, 'Dispositions and Conditionals', The Philosophical Quarterly, 44 (1994), pp. 1-8
2. A.D. Smith, 'Dispositional Properties', Mind, 86 (1977), pp. 439-45
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5. David Lewis, 'Finkish Dispositions', The Philosophical Quarterly, 47 (1997), pp. 143-58
6. Lewis, 'An Argument for the Identity Theory', in his Philosophical Papers, Vol. 1 (Oxford UP, 1983), p. 100
7. also George Molnar, 'Defeasible Propositions', Australasian Journal of Philosophy, 45 (1967), pp. 185-97
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9. N. Goodman, Fact, Fiction and Forecast (Harvard UP, 1983), p. 45
10. Rom Harré, Varieties of Realism: a Rationale for the Natural Sciences (Oxford: Blackwell, 1986), at p. 295
11. Ernst Mach, The Science of Mechanics: a Critical and Historical Account of its Development, 6th edn (New York: Open Court, 1960), pp. 283-90
12. Gordon Kane, in The Particle Garden: Our Universe as Understood by Particle Physics (New York: Addison Wesley, 1995), surveys the evidence for structurelessness
13. Tony M. Liss and Paul Tipton, 'The Discovery of the Top Quark', Scientific American, 277 (September 1997), pp. 36-41
14. For a similar point, see the brief but excellent Jim Franklin, 'Are Dispositions Reducible to Categorical Properties?', The Philosophical Quarterly, 36 (1986), pp. 62-4
15. Stephen Mumford, 'Dispositions, Bases, Overdetermination and Identities', Ratio, 8 (1995), p. 58
16. Michael Dummett also supports, cautiously and with qualifications, a double standard in physics, arriving at his position by a different route from that of the problem of the missing reduction base: see The Seas of Language (Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1993), pp. 376-410
17. Don Howard, 'Holism, Separability, and the Metaphysical Implications of the Bell Experiments', in J.T. Cushing and E. McMullin (eds), Philosophical Consequences of Quantum Theory (Notre Dame UP, 1989), pp. 224-53
18. also Paul Teller, 'Relativity, Relational Holism, and the Bell Inequalities', in Cushing and McMullin, pp. 208-23
19. M.G. Redhead, From Physics to Metaphysics (Cambridge UP, 1995), ch. 3