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Dispositions: An Integrational Analysis

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  01 January 2024

Daihyun Chung
Daihyun Chung*
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Ewha Womans University, South Korea
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Daihyun Chung, Ewha Womans University, Ssangyong 104-101 Poongdong, Goyangsi 411-757, South Korea. Email: chungdhn@ewha.ac.kr
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Abstract

Whereas the Humean accounts of causality in terms of contiguity, temporal priority, constant conjunction, and contingency face difficulties of one sort, the dispositional explanations of causality in terms of reciprocity, simultaneity, ubiquity, and holism seem to meet difficulties of another sort. But the difficulties which dispositionalism faces may be dissipated if one can appeal consistently to the logic of naturalism, rather than to the grammar of an implicit dualism, for example, as it is illustrated when G. Molnar tried to advance the analogy between the mental intentionality and the physical intentionality.

The notion of integration is taken to allow a conceptual space for naturalism of one kind. It may be expressed in the thesis that there is integrationality in any entity like dispositions, such that the integrationality is a power to realize the embedded objective of it in the context where it interacts with all others. The thesis would help to see how dispositions can be intentional, how the notion of information may be read integrationally from any object, and how the notion of fitting plays a role in the metaphysics of integrationality.

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Diogenes , Volume 62 , Issue 2: Current Trends in Korean Philosophy , May 2015 , pp. 32 - 40
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Author Note

A draft of this paper was read at the Disposition and Mind Workshop, Kyung Hee University, May 30–31, 2012. Encouragement and help was given to improve the draft, and I am grateful for the participants in the workshop, especially Professors Kai-Yuan Cheng, Sungho Choi, John Heil, and John Michael McGuire.

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