Essential reading:
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Aristotle, Metaphysics IX (Bring a text to class!)
Also available online, e.g. in the Ross translation: http://www.classicallibrary.org/aristotle/metaphysics/book09.htm |
Additional reading:
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Jansen, Ludger (2015): Aristotle's Theory of Dispositions
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Essential reading
Middle Ages |
Thomas von Aquin, De principiis natura, Kapitel 1-2.
Thomas von Aquin, Summa Theologia I q. 77, art 1 Excerpts from Ockhams Reportatio II, q. 20. |
Essential reading
early modern period |
René Descartes, Prinzipien der Philosophie II, §§24-43.
Excerpts from the handout |
Additional reading:
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Nicolas Malebranche, Search After Truth, trans. by T. M. Lennon & P. J. Olscamp,Cambridge 1997, Section: 6.2.3, 446-452.
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Essential reading:
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Jaag, Siegfried (2014): Dispositional Essentialism and the Grounding of Natural Modality. In: Philosophers Imprint 14, No. 34.
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Additional reading:
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Bird, Alexander(2007): Nature’s Metaphysics. Laws and Properties. Oxford: Oxford University Press. Chapter 3 (pp. 43-65) and chap. 6.3 (pp. 138-146).
Vetter, Barbara (2015): Potentiality. From Dispositions to Modality. Oxford: Oxford University Press. Chapter |