Dispositions and subjunctives |
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Authors: | Jesse R. Steinberg |
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Affiliation: | (1) Philosophy Department, University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign, 105 Gregory Hall, 810 South Wright Street, Urbana, IL 61801, USA |
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Abstract: | It is generally agreed that dispositions cannot be analyzed in terms of simple subjunctive conditionals (because of what are called “masked dispositions” and “finkish dispositions”). I here defend a qualified subjunctive account of dispositions according to which an object is disposed to Φ when conditions C obtain if and only if, if conditions C were to obtain, then the object would Φ ceteris paribus. I argue that this account does not fall prey to the objections that have been raised in the literature. |
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