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 …

According to the neo-Humean metaphysic, defended most promi nently by David Lewis, 1
the world is a vast collection of particular, local matters of fact—it's just one little thing after …

This volume is a collection of papers that advance our understanding of the metaphysics of
powers—properties such as fragility and electric charge. The metaphysics of powers is a fast …

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 …

This book takes a radically different approach to the concept of autonomy. Killmister defends
a theory of autonomy that is four-dimensional and constituted by what she calls 'self …

Causal powers are ubiquitous. Electrons are negatively charged; they have the power to
repel other electrons. Water is a solvent; it has the power to dissolve salt. We use concepts …

Why does anything happen? What is the best account of natural necessity? In this book,
William A. Bauer presents and defends a comprehensive account of the internal structure of …

Several philosophers of science and metaphysicians claim that the dispositional properties
of fundamental particles, such as the mass, charge, and spin of electrons, are ungrounded in …

Dispositional ascriptions do not entail the counterfactuals we might expect, as interfering
factors may be poised to prevent the disposition from manifesting in its very stimulus …

This paper discusses the prospects of a dispositional solution to the Kripke–Wittgenstein
rule-following puzzle. Recent attempts to employ dispositional approaches to this puzzle …