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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. In contemporary philosophy, potentials have been recognized mostly in the form of so-called dispositions: solubility, fragility, and so on. Vetter takes disposition

Who reads Potentiality: From Dispositions to Modality (Oxford Philosophical Monographs)?

Author

Barbara Vetter; Oxford University Press

Publisher

IRL Press at Oxford University Press

Published

2015

Language

EN

ISBN

9780198714316

Category

philosophy

Subjects

Philosophy, Science, Physics

Rating

5 / 5 (1 ratings)

Updated

2026-03-25