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International Studies in Phenomenology and Philosophy

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Radical non-dispositionalism and the permutation problem

Vassilis Livanios

pp. 45-61

Abstract

Radical non-dispositionalism is the view according to which the actual causal/nomic roles of natural properties are totally irrelevant to their de re modal representation. The major difficulty besetting all forms of radical non-dispositionalism is that the latter allegedly allows the metaphysical possibility of two natural properties swapping their actual causal/nomic roles. The aim of this paper is to provide a plausible solution to that problem. To this end, I describe the necessary steps that a proponent of the view may take to respond to it. I argue that those steps include the rejection of the transworld existence of natural properties and the adoption of a counterpart-theoretic framework for their de re modal representation. I, finally, present two versions of the property-counterpart framework which are consistent with the radical non-dispositionalism.

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(2014) Axiomathes 24 (1).

Pages: 45-61

Full citation:

Livanios Vassilis (2014) „Radical non-dispositionalism and the permutation problem“. Axiomathes 24 (1), 45–61.