Modal dispositionalism and necessary perfect masks
Vetter, Barbara and Busse, Ralf – 2022
Modal dispositionalism is the view that possibilities are a matter of the dispositions of individual objects: it is possible that p if and only if something has a disposition for p to be the case. We raise a problem for modal dispositionalism: nothing within the theory rules out that there could be necessary, perfect masks, which make the manifestation of a disposition impossible. Unless such necessary perfect masks are ruled out, modal dispositionalism runs the risk of failing to provide a sufficient condition for possibility, and indeed of engendering contradictions. But to rule them out, modal dispositionalism would have to revise a crucial tenet of the view, its localism.
Title
Modal dispositionalism and necessary perfect masks
Author
Vetter, Barbara and Busse, Ralf
Date
2022
Identifier
doi: 10.1093/analys/anab061
Appeared in
Analysis 82(1)
Type
Text
Size or Duration
pp. 84-94