| 书目名称 | Handbook of Potentiality | | 编辑 | Kristina Engelhard,Michael Quante | | 视频video | | | 概述 | A unique handbook covering an as yet unexplored philosophical investigation.Enriches the wide and fruitful debate about dispositions‘ profits.A must-read, since the argument from the potential is one | | 图书封面 |  | | 描述 | .This volume congregates articles of leading philosophers about potentials and potentiality in all areas of philosophy and the empirical sciences in which they play a relevant role. It is the first encompassing collection of articles on the metaphysics of potentials and potentiality..Potentials play an important role not only in our everyday understanding of objects, persons and systems but also in the sciences. An example is the potential to become an adult human person. Moreover, the attribution of potentials involves crucial ethical problems. Bioethics makes references to the theoretical concept "potential" without being able to clarify its meaning. However, despite its relevance it has not been made subject of philosophical investigation. Mostly, potentials are regarded as a subspecies of dispositions. Whilst dispositions are a flourishing field of research, potentials as such have not come into focus. Potentials like dispositions are modal properties. But already a first glance at the metaphysics of potentials shows that concerning their ascription potentials are more problematic than dispositions since "potential" means that an entity has the potential to acquire a property i | | 出版日期 | Book 2018 | | 关键词 | Aristotle’s Metaphysics; History of Philosophy; Classical Arabic Thought; Medieval Philosophy; Early Mod | | 版次 | 1 | | doi | https://doi.org/10.1007/978-94-024-1287-1 | | isbn_softcover | 978-94-024-1642-8 | | isbn_ebook | 978-94-024-1287-1 | | copyright | Springer Science+Business Media B.V., part of Springer Nature 2018 |
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