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SUMMARY:The ontological commitments of dispositionalism
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LOCATION:Hotel Grauer Bär\, Universitaetsstraße 5-7\, Innsbruck\, Austria\, 6020
DESCRIPTION:<p>Dispositionalism or dispositional realism\, i.e. the view that there are irreducible\, causally efficacious dispositions or powers\, is a position to be taken seriously within contemporary metaphysics. In recent decades\, its proponents have mainly been concerned with showing that dispositionalism is a viable alternative to the highly influential Humean account of causation. However\, relatively little attention has been paid to the ontological commitments of dispositional realism: which ontology does the assumption of irreducible powers suggest or even presuppose? Our conference aims at exploring this issue.<br>In particular\, questions to be discussed are:</p>\n<ul>\n<li>How should powers be ontologically categorized? Do they need bearers? If so\, to which ontological category might such bearers belong?</li>\n<li>Does dispositional realism favour an ontology of substances or events or tropes etc.?</li>\n<li>Which account of persistence should dispositionalists endorse?</li>\n<li>Are there irreducible powers only in the microphysical realm or also in the macrophysical realm?</li>\n</ul>
ORGANIZER;CN=Anne Sophie Spann;CN=Daniel Wehinger:
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