Debating Dispositions

Author : Gregor Damschen,Robert Schnepf,Karsten Stüber
Publisher : Walter de Gruyter
Page : 363 pages
File Size : 45,9 Mb
Release : 2009
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 9783110184037

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Debating Dispositions by Gregor Damschen,Robert Schnepf,Karsten Stüber Pdf

Ordinary language and scientific discourse are filled with linguistic expressions for dispositional properties such as "soluble," "elastic," "reliable," and "humorous." We characterize objects in all domains - physical objects as well as human persons - with the help of dispositional expressions. Hence, the concept of a disposition has historically and systematically played a central role in different areas of philosophy ranging from metaphysics to ethics. The contributions of this volume analyze the ancient foundations of the discussion about disposition, examine the problem of disposition within the context of the foundation of modern science, and analyze this dispute up to the 20th century. Furthermore, articles explore the contemporary theories of dispositions.

Author : D.M. Armstrong,C.B. Martin,U.T. Place
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 231 pages
File Size : 41,6 Mb
Release : 2002-03-11
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 9781134761289

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Dispositions by D.M. Armstrong,C.B. Martin,U.T. Place Pdf

Dispositions are essential to our understanding of the world. Dispositions: A Debate is an extended dialogue between three distinguished philosophers - D.M. Armstrong, C.B. Martin and U.T. Place - on the many problems associated with dispositions, which reveals their own distinctive accounts of the nature of dispositions. These are then linked to other issues such as the nature of mind, matter, universals, existence, laws of nature and causation.

Author : William A. Bauer,Anna Marmodoro
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing
Page : 273 pages
File Size : 49,5 Mb
Release : 2023-12-28
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 9781350336124

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Artificial Dispositions by William A. Bauer,Anna Marmodoro Pdf

We inhabit a world not only full of natural dispositions independent of human design, but also artificial dispositions created by our technological prowess. How do these dispositions, found in automation, computation, and artificial intelligence applications, differ metaphysically from their natural counterparts? This collection investigates artificial dispositions: what they are, the roles they play in artificial systems, and how they impact our understanding of the nature of reality, the structure of minds, and the ethics of emerging technologies. It is divided into four parts covering the following interconnected themes: (i) Artificial and Natural Dispositions, (ii) Artificial Systems and Their Dispositions, (iii) Agency, Mind, and Artificial Dispositions, and (iv) Artificial Moral Dispositions. This is a groundbreaking and thought-provoking resource for any student or scholar of philosophy of science, contemporary metaphysics, applied ethics, philosophy of mind, and philosophy of technology.

Author : Florian Fischer
Publisher : Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co KG
Page : 173 pages
File Size : 50,9 Mb
Release : 2018-09-10
Category : Science
ISBN : 9783110594843

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Natural Laws as Dispositions by Florian Fischer Pdf

The book provides a novel account of laws of nature via dispositions. Laws of nature play a paramount role in philosophy, science and everyday life. Understanding laws of nature is philosophically interesting on its own right but also many important notions belonging to philosophy of science, like causation, prediction and explanation, are intimately related to the laws of nature. The book outlines the alleged characteristics of the laws of nature and introduces the main families of theories of laws of nature – neo-humean, ADT and dispositional theories. It then develops an account of dispositions the `triadic process picture of dispositions’ (TPD) and applies it to the debate about laws of nature. Finally, the (TPD) account of the necessity of the laws of nature is presented: laws of nature are naturally necessary and metaphysically contingent. Thus the book provides an introduction to the debates about laws of nature as well as dispositions, while at the same time developing a novel theory and thus is interesting for the beginner as well as expert in these fields.

Author : David Malet Armstrong
Publisher : Psychology Press
Page : 197 pages
File Size : 46,8 Mb
Release : 1996
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 0415144329

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Dispositions by David Malet Armstrong Pdf

'Why did the window break when it was hit by the stone? Because the window is brittle and the stone is hard; hardness and brittleness are powers, dispositional properties or dispositions.' Dispositions are essential to our understanding of the world. This book is a record of the debate on the nature of dispositions between three distinguished philosophers - D. M. Armstrong, C. B. Martin and U. T. Place - who have been thinking about dispositions all their working lives. Their distinctive accounts cover many of the issues surrounding dispositions such as the nature of mind, matter, universals, existence, laws of nature and causation. Dispositions illuminates this central topic in analytic philosophy and at the same time highlights deeper concerns of metaphysics.

Author : Anna Marmodoro
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 227 pages
File Size : 48,6 Mb
Release : 2010-06-10
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 9781136968341

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The Metaphysics of Powers by Anna Marmodoro Pdf

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 developing research field with fundamental questions at the forefront of current research, such as Can there be a world of only powers? What is the manifestation of a power? Are powers and their manifestations related by necessity? What are the prospects for dispositional accounts of causation? The papers focus on questions concerning the metaphysics of powers that cut across any particular subject-specific ontological domain -- whether philosophy of science, philosophy of mind, ethics, epistemology – investigating the metaphysical structure of powers, the nature of the manifestation of powers, the necessity or contingency of a power’s relation to its manifestations, and powers and causation. A number of authors also engage in discussion with Humean and neo-Humean treatments of causation, thereby making contributions to a larger metaphysical debate beyond powers. Additionally, the authors engage critically with the latest contributions to the debate on powers in the literature, thereby bringing together in a wholesome and analytical way the most recent and noteworthy theoretical developments in this research field.

Author : J. Michael Hogan,Jessica A. Kurr,Michael J. Bergmaier,Jeremy D. Johnson
Publisher : Penn State Press
Page : 341 pages
File Size : 46,6 Mb
Release : 2017-11-08
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 9780271080345

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Speech and Debate as Civic Education by J. Michael Hogan,Jessica A. Kurr,Michael J. Bergmaier,Jeremy D. Johnson Pdf

In an era increasingly marked by polarized and unproductive political debates, this volume makes the case for a renewed emphasis on teaching speech and debate, both in and outside of the classroom. Speech and debate education leads students to better understand their First Amendment rights and the power of speaking. It teaches them to work together collaboratively to solve problems, and it encourages critical thinking, reasoned and fact-based argumentation, and respect for differing viewpoints in our increasingly diverse and global society. Highlighting the need for more emphasis on the ethics and skills of democratic deliberation, the contributors to this volume—leading scholars, teachers, and coaches in speech and debate programs around the country—offer new ideas for reinvigorating curricular and co-curricular speech and debate by recovering and reinventing their historical mission as civic education. Combining historical case studies, theoretical reflections, and reports on programs that utilize rhetorical pedagogies to educate for citizenship, Speech and Debate as Civic Education is a first-of-its-kind collection of the best ideas for reinventing and revitalizing the civic mission of speech and debate for a new generation of students. In addition to the editors, the contributors to this volume include Jenn Anderson, Michael D. Bartanen, Ann Crigler, Sara A. Mehltretter Drury, David A. Frank, G. Thomas Goodnight, Ronald Walter Greene, Taylor W. Hahn, Darrin Hicks, Edward A. Hinck, Jin Huang, Una Kimokeo-Goes, Rebecca A. Kuehl, Lorand Laskai, Tim Lewis, Robert S. Littlefield, Allan D. Louden, Paul E. Mabrey III, Jamie McKown, Gordon R. Mitchell, Catherine H. Palczewski, Angela G. Ray, Robert C. Rowland, Minhee Son, Sarah Stone Watt, Melissa Maxcy Wade, David Weeks, Carly S. Woods, and David Zarefsky.

Author : Eric Lemaire
Publisher : Walter de Gruyter
Page : 150 pages
File Size : 44,5 Mb
Release : 2013-05-02
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 9783110321845

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Wittgenstein: Issues and Debates by Eric Lemaire Pdf

The work of L. Wittgenstein addresses a huge variety of topics. The spectrum ranges from mathematics to the analysis of ethical problems. These issues have generated many important philosophical discussions and the aim of this book is to examine a the broad range of philosophical problems. Michael Le Du investigates the relevance of the problems and solutions proposed by Wittgenstein in his philosophy of social sciences. Sabine Plaud explores the synoptic views vs. the primal phenomena in Wittgenstein on Goethe’s Morphology. Eric Lemaire makes several critical remarks on Wittgenstein’s anti-metaphyscial readings. Ay?egül Çakal asks what the repudiation of private language means in Wittgenstein’s Philosophy. Alejandro Tomasini Bassols looks into Wittgenstein and the myth of hinge propositions. Lars Hertzberg discusses P.M.S. Hacker’s point of view about Wittgenstein’s meaning of “concept”. Jesús Padilla Gálvez analyzes Wittgenstein’s criticism against Gödel’s project of metalogic.

Author : Karyl A. Davis,M. Leslie Wade Zorwick,James Roland,Melissa Maxcy Wade
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 178 pages
File Size : 46,5 Mb
Release : 2016-06-03
Category : Education
ISBN : 9781317480952

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Using Debate in the Classroom by Karyl A. Davis,M. Leslie Wade Zorwick,James Roland,Melissa Maxcy Wade Pdf

Debate holds enormous potential to build 21st century skills such as critical thinking, communication, collaboration, and conflict resolution in the K-12 classroom, but teachers often struggle to implement and contextualize it effectively. Using Debate in the Classroom draws on research from a variety of academic disciplines to explain the benefits of debate across subject areas, and describes how teachers can use debate to enliven their curriculum and support the aims of the Common Core. Topics include: Introducing debate as a pedagogical practice to engage students, improve school culture, and disrupt the school to prison pipeline. Using debate to teach critical literacy and improve students’ reading, writing, and speaking skills. Implementing role-playing techniques to strengthen information literacy and reasoning skills. Building students’ empathy, perspective-taking skills, and cultural humility as they confront difficult social issues through debate. Appendices provide a variety of tools to assist K-12 teachers in implementing debate in the classroom, including ready-made debate activities, student handouts, and a step-by-step guide to introducing students to debate in just one week.

Author : South Australia. Parliament. House of Assembly
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 1128 pages
File Size : 41,7 Mb
Release : 1897
Category : Electronic
ISBN : STANFORD:36105028015563

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Debates by South Australia. Parliament. House of Assembly Pdf

Author : Anonim
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 974 pages
File Size : 55,7 Mb
Release : 1894
Category : Electronic
ISBN : BSB:BSB11576260

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Parliamentary Debates by Anonim Pdf

Author : Victoria. Parliament
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 1288 pages
File Size : 46,6 Mb
Release : 1870
Category : Electronic
ISBN : HARVARD:HWBZFD

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Parliamentary Debates by Victoria. Parliament Pdf

Author : Hamid Vahid
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 204 pages
File Size : 52,9 Mb
Release : 2020-09-06
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 9781000179026

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The Dispositional Architecture of Epistemic Reasons by Hamid Vahid Pdf

This book is concerned with the conditions under which epistemic reasons provide justification for beliefs. The author draws on metaethical theories of reasons and normativity and then applies his theory to various contemporary debates in epistemology. In the first part of the book, the author outlines what he calls the dispositional architecture of epistemic reasons. The author offers and defends a dispositional account of how propositional and doxastic justification are related to one another. He then argues that the dispositional view has the resources to provide an acceptable account of the notion of the basing relation. In the second part of the book, the author examines how his theory of epistemic reasons bears on the issues involving perceptual reasons. He defends dogmatism about perceptual justification against conservatism and shows how his dispositional framework illuminates certain claims of dogmatism and its adherence to justification internalism. Finally, the author applies his dispositional framework to epistemological topics including the structure of defeat, self-knowledge, reasoning, emotions and motivational internalism. The Dispositional Architecture of Epistemic Reasons demonstrates the value of employing metaethical considerations for the justification of beliefs and propositions. It will be of interest to scholars and advanced students working in epistemology and metaethics.

Author : Great Britain. Parliament
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 1042 pages
File Size : 43,5 Mb
Release : 1893
Category : Great Britain
ISBN : UOM:39015033938245

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The Parliamentary Debates by Great Britain. Parliament Pdf

Author : Great Britain. Parliament
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 972 pages
File Size : 40,7 Mb
Release : 1869
Category : Great Britain
ISBN : PRNC:32101075720126

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Hansard's Parliamentary Debates by Great Britain. Parliament Pdf