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- Title
Lewis’ Conditional Analysis of Dispositions Revisited and Revised.
- Authors
Schlosser, Markus E.
- Abstract
The conditional analysis of dispositions is widely rejected, mainly due to counterexamples in which dispositions are either “finkish” or “masked.” David Lewis proposed a reformed conditional analysis. This view avoids the problem of finkish dispositions, but it fails to solve the problem of masking. I will propose a reformulation of Lewis’ analysis, and I will argue that this reformulation can easily be modified so that it avoids the problem of masking. In the final section, I will address the challenge that some dispositions appear to lack any stimulus condition, and I will briefly turn to the issue of reductionism.
- Subjects
DISPOSITION (Philosophy); CONDITIONAL immortality; PROBLEM solving; REDUCTIONISM; PRINCIPLE (Philosophy)
- Publication
Acta Analytica, 2018, Vol 33, Issue 2, p241
- ISSN
0353-5150
- Publication type
Article
- DOI
10.1007/s12136-017-0331-6