03468nam a22005415i 4500 978-3-031-52625-1 DE-He213 20251030111458.0 cr nn 008mamaa 240301s2024 sz | s |||| 0|eng d 9783031526251 978-3-031-52625-1 10.1007/978-3-031-52625-1 doi BD95-131 HPJ bicssc PHI013000 bisacsh QDTJ thema Azzano, Lorenzo. author. aut http://id.loc.gov/vocabulary/relators/aut 72349 Dispositional Reality [electronic resource] : A Novel Approach to Power Ontology and Metaphysics / by Lorenzo Azzano. 1st ed. 2024. Cham : Springer International Publishing : Imprint: Springer, 2024. XI, 246 p. 1 illus. online resource. text txt rdacontent computer c rdamedia online resource cr rdacarrier text file PDF rda Synthese Library, Studies in Epistemology, Logic, Methodology, and Philosophy of Science, 2542-8292 ; 482 1. Introduction -- 2. Reality -- 3. Appearance -- 4. Dispositional Reality -- 5. In favour of Dispositional Reality -- 6. The extent of Dispositional Reality -- 7. Explaining with dispositions -- 8. Meta-explanatory questions -- 9. The future of Dispositional Reality. Dispositionalism, perhaps the most popular variant of non-Humean metaphysics, submits that dispositions, powers, or capacities, are part of the furniture of the world. In this book I advance an original approach to dispositionalism revolving around the notion of Dispositional Reality; the novelty lies in the fact that the account, unlike most alternatives on the market, does not require the reification of objects, facts, properties, nor their dispositional essences – and is in fact compatible with a far more deflationary approach to dispositions, while still being true to the non-Humean spirit of the proposal. This power metaphysics without powers allows one to dispel several puzzles in recent literature, or recast them under a new light. Albeit with its own peculiarities, this proposal constitutes a variant of explanatory dispositionalism, according to which realism about dispositions ought not to be understood as an ontological inflation, but as an explanatory inversion within the nomic and modal family. Some of these explanations are hereby attempted, and a study of various types of non-causal explanation will be provided. Metaphysics. 70839 Ontology. 60617 Science Philosophy. 63307 Metaphysics. 70839 Ontology. 60617 Philosophy of Science. 68560 SpringerLink (Online service) Springer Nature eBook Printed edition: 9783031526244 Printed edition: 9783031526268 Printed edition: 9783031526275 Synthese Library, Studies in Epistemology, Logic, Methodology, and Philosophy of Science, 2542-8292 ; 482 72350 https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-031-52625-1 ZDB-2-REP ZDB-2-SXPR 58076 58076