Dispositions: A Debate

by D.M. Armstrong, C.B. Martin, U.T. Place

Dispositions are essential to our understanding of the world. A Debate is an extended dialogue between three distinguished philosophers - D.M. Armstrong, C.B. Martin and U.T. Place - on the many problems associated with dispositions, which reveals their own distinctive accounts of the nature of dispositions. These are then linked to other issues such as the nature of mind, matter, universals, existence, laws of nature and causation.

Genres: Philosophy

208 pages, Hardcover

First published June 6, 1996

About the author

David Malet Armstrong (born 8 July 1926), often D. M. Armstrong, is an Australian philosopher. He is well-known for his work on metaphysics and the philosophy of mind, and for his defence of a factualist ontology, a functionalist theory of the mind, an externalist epistemology, and a necessitarian conception of the laws of nature. He was elected a Foreign Honorary Member of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences in 2008.

Reviews

[Daniel · Rating 4 out of 5]

A lot has happened on the scene since this debate, but it's a classic. The exchanges between Armstrong and Martin are excellent, and I think Martin gets the upper-hand in the end.