Symmetries, dispositions and essences

Livanios, Vassilis

doi:10.1007/s11098-008-9328-8

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“…59 59 See Branding (2002) for a detailed historical study of the relationship between symmetries and charge conservation, and Livanios (2010) for an overview. …”

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The Essence of Dispositional Essentialism

Yates

2012

Philos Phenomenol Research

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“…59 59 See Branding (2002) for a detailed historical study of the relationship between symmetries and charge conservation, and Livanios (2010) for an overview. …”

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The Essence of Dispositional Essentialism

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2012

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“…To illustrate that, consider, for instance, the metaphysical issue of the de re modal representation of natural properties. Physics suggests that we can identify some fundamental natural properties (such as mass, charge, and spin) as invariants under the action of fundamental symmetries (for details, see Livanios ). These symmetries can be interpreted in various ways.…”

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Vikingism as a Metametaphysical Thesis

Livanios

2019

Metaphilosophy

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This paper aims to be a contribution to the recent discussion on the science‐metaphysics relationship. After drawing a distinction between two aspects of the relationship, it defends the theoretical importance of the proposed distinction and argues for the interconnectedness of the aspects in question. The paper then focuses on one of those aspects: that is, the methodological strategy of some metaphysicians to appeal to scientific findings and practice in the course of discussing various pure metaphysical problems. It discusses the question about the scope of science‐informed metaphysics and its relation to the issue concerning the existence of an autonomous metaphysical possibility. Finally, the paper explores the reasons metaphysicians have for involving science in metaphysical discussions.

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“…While in the concluding chapter, he considers difficulties related to the plausible fact that some laws of nature seem not to reflect the dispositional nature of fundamental properties. Elsewhere I have examined issues from both of those categories (see Livanios 2008Livanios , 2010. 1 In this paper I focus on another difficulty 1 In Livanios (2008) I critically discuss Bird's attempt to show that spatiotemporal relations have dispositional essences.…”

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The “Constant” Threat to the Dispositional Essentialist Conception of Laws

Livanios

2014

Metaphysica

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According to the dispositional essentialist account of laws of nature, the latter express the dispositional nature of fundamental natural properties. In this paper I discuss the difficulty that the existence of fundamental constants of nature raises for that account. To this end, I examine a relevant argument against the account and describe how an advocate of the dispositionalist conception may try to undermine it by raising objections to its premises. Then I discuss those objections and show that eventually all fail. I finally conclude that the existence of the fundamental constants remains a "constant" threat to the dispositional essentialist conception of laws.

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Symmetries, dispositions and essences

Cited by 23 publications

References 9 publications

The Essence of Dispositional Essentialism

The Essence of Dispositional Essentialism

Vikingism as a Metametaphysical Thesis

The “Constant” Threat to the Dispositional Essentialist Conception of Laws

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