Singular causation without dispositions

García Encinas, María José

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URI: http://hdl.handle.net/10481/29894

ISSN: 0495-4548

ISSN: 2171-679X

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Universidad del País Vasco

Materia

Causation

Dispositions

Singularism

Humeanism

Relation

Modality

Date

2011

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García-Encinas, M.J. Singular causation without dispositions. Theoria, 26(1): 35-50 (2011). [http://hdl.handle.net/10481/29894]

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This work was supported by the Spanish MiCINN Project: HUM2007-64797/FISO.

Abstract

Is singular causation best understood within a dispositionalist framework? Although a positive answer has not yet been wholly developed, different philosophers have made some positive contributions suggesting that it is. Against these suggestions, I claim that any possible account of singular causation in terms of real, irreducible, dispositions conveys unsolvable flaws in its very metaphysical foundations.

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