Dispositional essentialism and the grounding of natural modality

Philosophers' Imprint 14 (2014)
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Dispositional essentialism is a non-Humean view about the essences of certain fundamental or natural properties that looms large in recent metaphysics , not least because it promises to explain neatly the natural modalities such as laws of nature, counterfactuals, causation and chance. In the current paper, however, several considerations are presented that indicate a serious tension between its essentialist core thesis and natural “metaphysical” interpretations of its central explanatory claims

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Siegfried Jaag
Heinrich Heine University Düsseldorf

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