{"product_id":"potentiality-from-dispositions-to-modality-9780198825869","title":"Potentiality: From Dispositions to Modality","description":"Individual 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. \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\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAbout the Author\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eBarbara Vetter, \u003cem\u003eHumboldt-Universitat zu Berlin\u003c\/em\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eBarbara Vetter has a BPhil and a DPhil in Philosophy from the University of Oxford and is now a junior professor for theoretical philosophy at Humboldt-University, Berlin.\u003cbr\u003e","brand":"Oxford University Press","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":50409955459346,"sku":"9780198825869","price":45.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0831\/4771\/8930\/files\/img_9c5aa0f0-db4e-452b-a9a8-7d23be975782.jpg?v=1729295917","url":"https:\/\/surprise-castle.myshopify.com\/products\/potentiality-from-dispositions-to-modality-9780198825869","provider":"Surprise Castle","version":"1.0","type":"link"}