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Grounding theories of powers by Tugby, Matthew

“…Necessitarianism, as we shall use the term, is the view that natural properties and causal powers are necessarily connected in some way. In recent decades the…”
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Defending Modal Platonism: reply to Builes by Tugby, Matthew

“…Abstract In a recent article, David Builes (forthcoming, Analysis) argues that one should not try to combine a Platonic account of properties with the recently…”
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The property of goal‐directedness: Lessons from the dispositions debate by Tugby, Matthew

“…The system‐property or ‘cybernetic’ theory of goals and goal‐directedness became popular in the twentieth century. It is a theory that has reductionist and…”
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The laws of modality by Tugby, Matthew

“…Nomic realists have traditionally put laws to work within a theory of natural modality, in order to provide a metaphysical source for causal necessitation,…”
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Dispositional realism without dispositional essences by Tugby, Matthew

“…Dispositional realism, as we shall use the term, is a non-reductive, anti-Humean approach to dispositions which says that natural properties confer certain…”
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The problem of retention by Tugby, Matthew

“…A popular version of anti-Humeanism is one that views fundamental properties as being irreducibly dispositional in nature, and it is a view to which I am…”
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Universals, laws, and governance by Tugby, Matthew

“…Proponents of the dispositional theory of properties typically claim that their view is not one that offers a realist, governing conception of laws. My first…”
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Platonic Dispositionalism by Tugby, Matthew

“…In this paper I argue that if one subscribes to dispositionalism — the view that natural properties are irreducibly dispositional in character — then one ought…”
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Modal Platonism and the Problem of Negativity by Tugby, Matthew

“…The Platonic account of modality says, roughly, that truths about alien possibilities are grounded in uninstantiated universals. Recently, Ingram has raised a…”
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POWER WORLDS AND THE PROBLEM OF INDIVIDUATION by Tugby, Matthew

“…Is it metaphysically possible for a world to contain power properties but no nonpower properties? Recently, much progress has been made by powers theorists to…”
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Categoricalism, dispositionalism, and the epistemology of properties by Tugby, Matthew

“…Notoriously, the dispositional view of natural properties is thought to face a number of regress problems, one of which points to an epistemological worry. In…”
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On the Reality of Intrinsically Finkable Dispositions by Tugby, Matthew

“…Recently, Choi ( Noûs, 46 , 289–325, 2012 ) has argued that current accounts of intrinsically finkable dispositions lead to absurd consequences in certain…”
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The alien paradox by Tugby, Matthew

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Graph-theoretic Models of Dispositional Structures by Tugby, Matthew

“…The focus of this article is the view about fundamental natural properties known as dispositional monism. This is a holistic view about nature, according to…”
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Rescuing dispositionalism from the ultimate problem: reply to Barker and Smart by Tugby, Matthew

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SIMULTANEITY IN DISPOSITIONAL INTERACTION? by Tugby, Matthew

“…My aim is to question an assumption that is often made in the philosophical literature on dispositions. This is the assumption that, generally, the stimulation…”
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Causal nominalism and the one over many problem by Tugby, Matthew

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Pandispositionalism: a study by Tugby, Matthew William

“…In this thesis, I offer the first full-length study of the metaphysical view known as pandispositionalism. Pandispositionalism is a view about natural…”
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