Dispositionalism's (grand)daddy issues: time travelling and perfect masks.
There is a tension between Dispositionalism––the view that all metaphysical modality is grounded in actual irreducible dispositional properties––and the possibility of time travel. This is due to the fact that Dispositionalism makes it much harder to solve a potentiality-based version of the grandfa...
| Publicado en: | Analysis Vol. 83; no. 1; pp. 40 - 50 |
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Oxford University Press / USA
Jan2023
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