Table of Contents Introduction ..................................................................................................IX Damschen/Schnepf/Stüber I. The Discovery of Dispositions: Ancient Foundations Knowledge and Virtue as Dispositions in Plato's Theatetus ..................... 3 Francisco J. Gonzalez Aristotle's Theory of Dispositions: From the Principle of Movement to the Unmoved Mover............................................................................... 24 Ludger Jansen Dispositions in Greek Historiography...................................................... 47 Burkhard Meissner II. The Debate about Dispositions from the Beginning of Modern Sciences to the 20th century The Dispositions of Descartes................................................................... 71 Peter Machamer Explicable Explainers: The Problem of Mental Dispositions in Spinoza's Ethics ............................................................................................. 79 Ursula Renz Harmonizing Modern Physics with Aristotelian Metaphysics: Leibniz's Theory of Force............................................................................................ 99 Michael-Thomas Liske From Ordinary Language to the Metaphysics of Dispositions – Gilbert Ryle on Disposition Talk and Dispositions ............................. 127 Oliver R. Scholz Table of Contents VIII III. Contemporary Philosophical Analyses of Dispositions Hic Rhodos, Hic Salta: From Reductionist Semantics to a Realist Ontology of Forceful Dispositions ......................................................... 145 Markus Schrenk Ascribing Dispositions .............................................................................. 168 Stephen Mumford Dispositional Pluralism ............................................................................. 186 Jennifer McKitrick Dispositions and Their Intentions........................................................... 204 Andrea Borghini IV. The Role of Dispositions in Scientific and Philosophical Contexts Dispositions in Physics.............................................................................. 223 Andreas Hüttemann The Role of Dispositions in Historical Explanations........................... 238 Robert Schnepf Empathy, Mental Dispositions, and the Physicalist Challenge........... 257 Karsten Stueber Dispositional Knowledge-How versus Propositional Knowledge-That......................................................................................... 278 Gregor Damschen Epistemic Virtues and Cognitive Dispositions...................................... 296 David Henderson and Terry Horgan The Epistemic Function of Virtuous Dispositions .............................. 320 Elke Brendel List of Contributors ...................................................................................