Potentiality: From Dispositions to Modality

by Barbara Vetter

Book Overview

Individual 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.

In contemporary philosophy, potentials have been recognized mostly in the form of so-called dispositions: solubility,...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0198825862
• ISBN13: 9780198825869
• Release Date: November 2018
• Publisher: Oxford Univ PR
• Length: 348 Pages
• Weight: 1.10 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.9" x 6.1" x 9.1"