The Ontology of Events, Powers and Dispositions
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THE ONTOLGOY OF EVENTS, POWERS AND DISPOSITIONS
July 20-21, 2009
Faculty: Randall Dipert and Neil Williams (University at Buffalo)
Two-day Course organized in conjunction with the International Conference on Biomedical Ontology.
This course will be a two part course:
Day 1: EVENTS (TBD)
Day 2: POWERS AND DISPOSITIONS The second part will provide an introduction to a number of the debates concerning dispositions properties. Three major issues to be discussed are:
(i) How should we distinguish dispositional properties from non-dispositional properties? (ii) Can dispositions be analyzed in terms of counterfactual conditionals? (iii) Are dispositions reducible?
Literature
- Bird, Alex. (2007). Nature’s Metaphysics. Oxford University Press, New York.
- Molnar, George. (2003) Powers. Oxford University Press, New York.
- Mumford. Stephen. (1998). Dispositions. Oxford University Press, New York.