{"product_id":"potentiality-from-dispositions-to-modality-9780198714316","title":"Potentiality: From Dispositions to Modality","description":"\u003cp\u003e • Author(s): Barbara Vetter\u003cbr\u003e • Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA\u003cbr\u003e • Publisher Imprint: Oxford University Press, USA\u003cbr\u003e • BISAC: Logic\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eIndividual 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. \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eIn contemporary philosophy, potentials have been recognized mostly in the form of so-called dispositions: solubility, fragility, and so on. Vetter takes dispositions as her starting point, but argues for and develops a more comprehensive conception of potentiality. She shows how, with this more comprehensive conception, an account of metaphysical modality can be given that meets three crucial requirements: (1) Extensional correctness: providing the right truth-values for statements of possibility and necessity; (2) formal adequacy: providing the right logic for metaphysical modality; and (3) semantic utility: providing a semantics that links ordinary modal language to the metaphysics of modality. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eThe resulting view of modality is a version of dispositionalism about modality: it takes modality to be a matter of the dispositions of individual objects (and, crucially, not of possible worlds). This approach has a long philosophical tradition going back to Aristotle, but has been largely neglected in contemporary philosophy. In recent years, it has become a live option again due to the rise of anti-Humean, powers-based metaphysics. The aim of \u003cem\u003ePotentiality and Possibility\u003c\/em\u003e is to develop the dispositionalist view in a way that takes account of contemporary developments in metaphysics, logic, and semantics.\u003cbr\u003e","brand":"Oxford University Press, USA","offers":[{"title":"Hardcover","offer_id":47890526437527,"sku":"9780198714316","price":12597.0,"currency_code":"INR","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0666\/3471\/1191\/files\/9780198714316.webp?v=1781180381","url":"https:\/\/atlanticbooks.com\/products\/potentiality-from-dispositions-to-modality-9780198714316","provider":"Atlantic Books","version":"1.0","type":"link"}