Giannini, Giacomo 
ORCID: 0000-0001-9427-937X and Schoonen, Tom
(2022)
Relational troubles structuralist worries for an epistemology of powers-based modality.
Philosophical Quarterly, 73 (4).
pp. 1162-1182.
ISSN 0031-8094
Abstract
Dispositionalism is the theory of modality that grounds all modal truths in powers: all metaphysically possible and necessary truths are to be explained by pointing to some actual power, or absence thereof. One of the main reasons to endorse dispositionalism is that it promises to deliver an especially desirable epistemology of modality. However, so far this issue has not be fully investigated with the care it is due. The aim of this paper is to fill this gap. We will cast some doubts on whether the dispositionalist really is in a better position to explain our modal knowledge. In fact, we argue that there is a tension between some core tenets of a powers metaphysics and the very features that make dispositionalism the ideal backdrop for a desirable epistemology of modality. We conclude that this leaves dispositionalists who want to deliver the promised epistemology with a hard, currently unfulfilled, task.
| Item Type: | Article |
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| Additional Information: | © 2022 The Author(s). |
| Divisions: | Philosophy, Logic and Scientific Method |
| Subjects: | B Philosophy. Psychology. Religion > B Philosophy (General) |
| Date Deposited: | 05 Oct 2023 16:12 |
| Last Modified: | 01 Nov 2024 00:51 |
| URI: | http://eprints.lse.ac.uk/id/eprint/120371 |
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