校際選修

115-1 選課時程

進行中

  • 初選第一階段 6/15/2026
  • 初選第二階段 6/22/2026
  • 校際選修 8/24/2026
  • 初選第三階段 8/31/2026
  • 開學後加退選 9/7/2026
  • 逾期加退選 9/21/2026
選課資源

傾向

Dispositions

學期
110-2
學分
3 學分
當期課號
D377
永久課號
B2768
開課單位
心智哲學研究所
授課教師
鄭凱元
校區
陽明
類別
必修
上課時間表
週四
5
13:20–14:10
傾向
YX206
3 節連堂
6
14:20–15:10
7
15:30–16:20

* 根據陽明交大上課時間表所列

教學方式

The aim of this seminar is to inquire the nature of disposition, what a disposition ascription means, and how we gain epistemic access to it. Students will read and discuss important works in philosophy on this topic, and come up with a research topic by the end of the semester.

週次計畫
週次主題
第 1 週Introduction
第 2 週Carnap, R., 1936–7, ‘Testability and Meaning’, Philosophy of Science, 3: 419–471 and 4: 1–40. Martin, C.B., 1994, ‘Dispositions and Conditionals’, The Philosophical Quarterly, 44: 1–8.
第 3 週Bird, A., 1998, ‘Dispositions and Antidotes’, The Philosophical Quarterly, 48: 227–234. Clarke, R., 2008, ‘Intrinsic Finks’, The Philosophical Quarterly, 58: 512–518.
第 4 週Choi, S., 2003, ‘Improving Bird’s Antidotes’, Australasian Journal of Philosophy, 81: 573–580. Cheng, K.Y., 2010, ‘Intrinsic Finks and Attributions of Rule-Following Dispositions’, Grazer Philosophische Studien, 80: 209–220.
第 5 週Choi, S., 2008, ‘Dispositional Properties and Counterfactual Conditionals’, Mind, 117: 795–841. Gundersen, E., 2017, ‘Lewis’s Revised Conditional Analysis Revisited’, Synthese, 194: 4541–4558. Gundersen, L., 2002, ‘In Defence of the Conditional Account of Dispositions’, Synthese, 130: 389–411.
第 6 週Fara, M., 2005, ‘Dispositions and Habituals’, Nous, 39: 43–82. Cross, T., 2005, ‘What Is a Disposition?’, Synthese, 144: 321–341.
第 7 週Handfield, T. & Bird, A., 2008, ‘Dispositions, Rules, and Finks’, Philosophical Studies, 140: 285–98. Lewis, D., 1997, ‘Finkish Dispositions’, The Philosophical Quarterly, 47: 143–158.
第 8 週Manley, D. & Wasserman, R., 2007, ‘A Gradable Approach to Dispositions’, The Philosophical Quarterly, 57: 68–75. –––, 2008, ‘On Linking Dispositions and Conditionals’, Mind, 117: 59–84. –––, 2011, ‘Dispositions, Conditionals, and Counterexamples’, Mind, 120: 1191–1227.
第 9 週Heil, J., 2003, From an Ontological Point of View, Oxford: Clarendon Press. –––, 2005, ‘Dispositions’, Synthese, 144: 343–356.
第 10 週McKitrick, J., 2003a, ‘A Case for Extrinsic Dispositions’, Australasian Journal of Philosophy, 81: 155–174. –––, 2003b, ‘The Bare Metaphysical Possibility of Bare Dispositions’, Philosophy and Phenomenological Research, 66: 349–369.
第 11 週Mellor, D.H., 1974, ‘In Defence of Dispositions’, The Philosophical Review, 83: 157–181. –––, 2000, ‘The Semantics and Ontology of Dispositions’, Mind, 109: 757–780.
第 12 週Kittle, S., 2015, ‘Powers Opposed and Intrinsic Finks’, The Philosophical Quarterly, 65: 372–380. Langton, R. & Lewis, D., 1998, ‘Defining “Intrinsic”’, Philosophy and Phenomenological Research, 58: 333–345.
第 13 週Lowe, E.J., 2010, ‘On the Individuation of Powers’, in A. Marmodoro (ed.), The Metaphysics of Powers: Their Grounding and Their Manifestations, New York: Routledge, 8–26. Malzkorn, W., 2000, ‘Realism, Functionalism and the Conditional Analysis of Dispositions’, The Philosophical Quarterly, 50: 452–469. –––, 2001, ‘Defining Disposition Concepts: A Brief History of the Problem’, Studies in History and Philosophy of Science, 32: 335–353.
第 14 週Molnar, G., 1999, ‘Are Dispositions Reducible?’, The Philosophical Quarterly, 49: 1–17. –––, 2003, Powers: A Study in Metaphysics, Oxford: Oxford University Press.
第 15 週Mumford, S., 1998, Dispositions, Oxford: Oxford University Press.
第 16 週Prior, E., 1982, ‘The Dispositional/Categorical Distinction’, Analysis, 42: 93–96. –––, 1985, Dispositions, Aberdeen: Aberdeen University Press. Prior, E., Pargetter, R. & Jackson, F., 1982, ‘Three Theses about Dispositions’, American Philosophical Quarterly, 19: 251–257.
第 17 週Student presentations
第 18 週Roundtable Discussions