Conditionals, functional essences and martin on dispositions

Philosophical Quarterly

Volumn 46, Issue 182, 1996, Pages 86-92

  Mumford, Stephen ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF NOTTINGHAM   (United Kingdom)

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EID: 32444447925     PISSN: 00318094     EISSN: 14679213     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.2307/2956310     Document Type: Note

References (13)

1. C.B. Martin, 'Dispositions and Conditionals', The Philosophical Quarterly, 44 (1994), pp. 1-8.
2. see for example J. Bricke, 'Hume's Theory of Dispositional Properties', American Philosophical Quarterly, 10 (1975), pp. 15-23.
3. E.g., G. Ryle, The Concept of Mind (London: Hutchinson, 1949), ch. 5 1-2;
4. N. Goodman, Fact, Fiction and Forecast, 2nd edn (Indianapolis: Bobbs-Merrill, 1955), p. 39;
5. W.V.O. Quine, Word and Object (MIT Press, 1960), pp. 222-3.
6. D.H. Mellor, 'In Defense of Dispositions', Philosophical Review, 83 (1974), pp. 157-81;
7. 'Counting Corners Correctly', Analysis, 42 (1982), pp. 96-7, esp. p. 96.
8. S.D. Mumford, 'Dispositions, Supervenience and Reduction', The Philosophical Quarterly, 44 (1994), pp. 419-38;
9. 'Dispositions, Bases, Overdetermination and Identities', Ratio, NS 8 (1995), pp. 42-62.
10. Geometrical 'powers' are discussed by Aristotle, Metaphysics 1019b 33ff.
11. E. Prior, Dispositions (Aberdeen UP, 1985), ch. 1.
12. These two types of background condition articulate a distinction similar to that made by R.S. Woolhouse, 'Counterfactuals, Dispositions and Capacities', Mind, 82 (1973), p. 559.
13. As described by M. Lange, 'Dispositions and Scientific Explanation', Pacific Philosophical Quarterly, 75 (1994), pp. 109-32, esp. p. 112.