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 …

Causation is everywhere in the world: it features in every science and technology. But how
much do we truly understand it? Do we know what it means to say that one thing is a cause …

Systematic metaphysics is defined by its task of solving metaphysical problems through the
repeated application of single, fundamental ontology. The dominant contemporary …

A glass has certain dispositions, for example the disposition to shatter when struck. But what
is this disposition? It seems on the one hand to be a perfectly real property, a genuine …

Analyses of dispositional ascriptions in terms of conditional statements famously confront the
problems of finks and masks. We argue that conditional analyses of dispositions, even those …

This paper examines the methodological claim made famous by PF Strawson: that we
understand what features are required for responsible agency by exploring our attitudes and …

Dispositions are modal properties. The standard conception of dispositions holds that each
disposition is individuated by its stimulus condition (s) and its manifestation (s), and that their …

Orthodoxy has it that knowledge is absolute—that is, it cannot come in degrees (absolutism
about propositional knowledge). On the other hand, there seems to be strong evidence for …

Jennifer McKitrick offers an opinionated guide to the philosophy of dispositions. In her view,
when an object has a disposition, it is such that, if a certain type of circumstance were to …

It is a familiar point that many ordinary dispositions are multi‐track, that is, not fully and
adequately characterisable by a single conditional. In this paper, I argue that both the extent …