Realism and the conditional analysis of dispositions: Reply to Malzkorn

Philosophical Quarterly

Volumn 51, Issue 204, 2001, Pages 375-378

  Mumford, Stephen ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF NOTTINGHAM   (United Kingdom)

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EID: 33644912204     PISSN: 00318094     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/1467-9213.00235     Document Type: Note

References (6)

1. W. Malzkorn, 'Realism, Functionalism and the Conditional Analysis of Dispositions', The Philosophical Quarterly, 50 (2000), pp. 452-69
2. S. Mumford, Dispositions (Oxford UP, 1998), pp. 87-91
3. A 'fink' makes a disposition vanish the moment it is tested: see C.B. Martin, 'Dispositions and Conditionals', The Philosophical Quarterly, 44 (1994), pp. 1-8
4. D. Armstrong, A World of States of Affairs (Cambridge UP, 1997), ch. 13
5. D. Lewis, 'Finkish Dispositions', The Philosophical Quarterly, 47 (1997), pp. 143-58
6. See D.H. Mellor, 'The Semantics and Ontology of Dispositions', Mind, 109 (2000), pp. 757-80, at pp. 759-60, for a pertinent discussion of this issue