The third session then focused on a detailed analysis of the functionalist approach and its difficulties, highlighted in particular by its opponents, the "dispositional essentialists" (B. Ellis). We then assessed the merits and shortcomings of each of these approaches.

Speaker(s)

Claudine Tiercelin

Professor at the Collège de France

Are the provisions reducible to functions ?

Speaker(s)

Claudine Tiercelin

Events

What meaning can be given to the project of metaphysical knowledge of nature ?

General introduction

Why and how can we treat our metaphysical delusions ?

Logic and semantics of dispositional attributions

The proper use of conceptual analysis in metaphysics

Are the provisions reducible to functions ?

The proper use of science in metaphysics

Dispositionalism

The proper use of science in metaphysics

Provisions and laws : a difficult cohabitation

Why metaphysical knowledge of nature implies a commitment to scientific realism

On the reality of the provisions

What are the real properties of nature? Dispositions, laws and essences

The role of ethics provisions

What are the real properties of nature? Dispositions, laws and essences

What are the real properties of nature? Dispositions, laws and essences

See also