Table of Contents

Chapters in this book

1. Frontmatter I
2. Table of Contents VII
3. I. The Discovery of Dispositions: Ancient Foundations
4. Knowledge and Virtue as Dispositions in Plato's Theaetetus 1
5. Aristotle's Theory of Dispositions From the Principle of Movement to the Unmoved Mover 24
6. Dispositions in Greek Historiography 47
7. II. The Debate about Dispositions from the Beginning of Modern Sciences to the 20th century
8. The Dispositions of Descartesc 69
9. Explicable Explainers: the Problem of Mental Dispositions in Spinoza's Ethics 79
10. Harmonizing Modern Physics with Aristotelian Metaphysics. Leibniz's Theory of Force 99
11. From Ordinary Language to the Metaphysics of Dispositions – Gilbert Ryle on Disposition Talk and Dispositions 127
12. III. Contemporary Philosophical Analyses of Dispositions
13. Hic Rhodos, Hic Salta: From Reductionist Semantics to a Realist Ontology of Forceful Dispositions 143
14. Ascribing Dispositions 168
15. Dispositional Pluralism 186
16. Dispositions and Their Intentions 204
17. IV. The Role of Dispositions in Scientific and Philosophical Contexts
18. Dispositions in Physics 221
19. The Role of Dispositions in Historical Explanations 238
20. Empathy, Mental Dispositions, and the Physicalist Challenge 257
21. Dispositional Knowledge-How versus Propositional Knowledge-That 278
22. Epistemic Virtues and Cognitive Dispositions 296
23. The Epistemic Function of Virtuous Dispositions 320
24. Backmatter 341