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Bird and the Dispositional Essentialist Account of Spatiotemporal Relations
Livanios, Vasileios (2008)The basic principles of dispositional essentialism do not require that the fundamental spatiotemporal relations are dispositional in nature. Nevertheless, Bird (who defends dispositional monism) argues that they possess ...
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Categorical Structures and the Multiple Realisability Argument
Livanios, Vasileios (2014)
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The Categorical-Dispositional Distinction, Locations and Symmetry Operations
Livanios, Vasileios (2017)
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The 'Constant' Threat to the Dispositional Essentialist Conception of Laws.
Livanios, Vasileios (2014)
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Exploring the Metaphysics of Nomic Relations
Livanios, Vasileios (2012)After defending the ontologically genuine existence of at least some of the actual nomic relations, I discuss some issues concerning their metaphysical features. I firstly argue in favour of the metaphysical contingency ...
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Is There a (compelling) Gauge-Theoretic Argument Against the Intrinsicality of Fundamental Properties?
Livanios, Vasileios (2012)
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On the Possibility of Contingently Dispositional Properties
Livanios, Vasileios (2010)
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Radical Non-dispositionalism and the Permutation Problem
Livanios, Vasileios (2014)Radical non-dispositionalism is the view according to which the actual causal/nomic roles of natural properties are totally irrelevant to their de re modal representation. The major difficulty besetting all forms of radical ...
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Science in metaphysics : exploring the metaphysics of properties and laws
Livanios, Vasileios (Springer international publ., 2017)
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Symmetries, dispositions and essences
Livanios, Vasileios (2010)Dispositional essentialists ultimately appeal to dispositional essences in order to provide (a) an explanation of the conservation of physical quantities and (b) identity conditions for fundamental physical properties. ...
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Tropes, Particularity, and Space-Time
Livanios, Vasileios (2007)Several difficulties, concerning the individuation and the variation of tropes, beset the initial classic version of trope theory. K. Campbell (Abstract particulars, Oxford, Basil Blackwell, 1990) presented a modified ...