ODWOŁANE: Na otwartym zebraniu naukowym Zakładu referat nt. "CAN DISPOSITIONS REPLACE LAWS IN THE DESCRIPTION OF THE PHYSICAL WORLD?" wygłosi mgr Joanna Luc.

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I will argue that, contrary to some suggestions in the philosophical literature, dispositions cannot replace laws in the description of the physical world. If for a certain type of physical situations a well-working law-based account is available, then it is not possible to describe these situations equally well in terms of dispositions. I will show using an example consisting of fours laws (Coulomb’s law, Newton’s law of gravitation, the rule for composition of forces and Newton’s second law) that when one tries to replace a law-based account by a disposition-based account, the latter turns out to be either less informative or inferior with respect to theoretical virtues such as simplicity, unification, non-triviality of predictions, explanatory power, and fruitfulness in applications.

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