The fourth session analyzed in detail the position which, in many respects, suggests that it gives dispositions all the reality we could hope for. The merits, in fact, are not small - logical and linguistic, but also economic in metaphysical terms, and also making, epistemically, our cognitive access to the world more intelligible: a) against quidditism, we have a condition of transmundane (and not primitive) identity for properties; b) the laws of nature are analyzed as being produced by dispositional essences without our even needing to resort to laws; c) we avoid the shortcomings of regularist and nomic necessitarian conceptions of laws; d) we give a better account of the modal force of laws.
16:30 - 18:30
