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Foundations,er explains the idea of an option and its connection to other core philosophical topics: modality, decision theory, and free will. Finally, I outline the argument of the remainder of this book, and how the idea of an option binds this argument together.

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The Analysis of Ability,by addressing a distinct question: under what conditions is an ‘able’-sentence true of an agent? I argue that we should answer this question—that is, give a semantics for ‘able’-sentences—in terms of options. I then argue that this is all there is to a theory of ability: an agent has an ability just

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The Active and Passive Powers,ies are understood as a kind of disposition. I explain why such accounts are mistaken. I then propose that an inverse position may be more promising: the dispositions and affordances of objects may be understood in terms of agents’ abilities. I connect this proposal to the behavior of grammatical vo

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