NDLI: MaxCon extended simples and the dispositionalist ontology of laws

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Author	Dumsday, Travis
Copyright Year	2016
Abstract	Extended simples are physical objects that, while spatially extended, possess no actual proper parts. The theory that physical reality bottoms out at extended simples is one of the principal competing views concerning the fundamental composition of matter, the others being atomism and the theory of gunk. Among advocates of extended simples, Markosian’s ‘MaxCon’ version of the theory (Aust J Philos 76:213–226, 1998, Monist 87:405–428, 2004) has justly achieved particular prominence. On the assumption of causal realism (i.e., on the assumption that a Humean account of causation is false), I argue here that the reality of MaxCon simples would entail the reality of irreducible, intrinsic dispositional properties. The existence of dispositional properties in turn has important implications for another central debate in metaphysics, namely that between two major competing views concerning the ontology of laws: dispositionalism versus nomological necessitarianism.
Starting Page	1627
Ending Page	1641
Page Count	15
File Format	PDF
ISSN	00397857
Journal	Synthese
Volume Number	194
Issue Number	5
e-ISSN	15730964
Language	English
Publisher	Springer Netherlands
Publisher Date	2016-01-16
Publisher Place	Dordrecht
Access Restriction	One Nation One Subscription (ONOS)
Subject Keyword	Dispositions Laws Simples Metaphysics Ontology Philosophy of Science Epistemology Logic Philosophy of Language
Content Type	Text
Resource Type	Article
Subject	Philosophy Social Sciences

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