Eliminating Potentiality from Pure Powers
| dc.contributor.author | Oswald, Matthew Egon Marshall | |
| dc.contributor.supervisor | Coates, Ashley | |
| dc.date.accessioned | 2024-08-07T20:41:40Z | |
| dc.date.available | 2024-08-07T20:41:40Z | |
| dc.date.issued | 2023 | |
| dc.department | Department of Philosophy | |
| dc.description | A research report submitted in partial fulfilment of the requirements for the degree of Master of Arts (Philosophy) to the Faculty of Humanities, School of Social Sciences, University of the Witwatersrand, Johannesburg, 2023. | |
| dc.description.abstract | I work to eliminate potentiality from the essences of pure powers, dispositions, by developing and defending a Megarian Actualist framework. I argue that the manifestations of fundamental natural powers are totally actual fields and that this enables me to avoid the Meinongian problem which affects traditional dispositionalist accounts. I adopt and defend Molnar’s view of manifestations and contributions and later I defend against criticisms against Megarian Actualism by Aristotle, Molnar and Bird. Finally, I conclude by demonstrating that Megarian Actualism can still preserve modality at large, despite endorsing a strict necessity relation between manifestation and disposition. | |
| dc.description.submitter | MM2024 | |
| dc.faculty | Faculty of Humanities | |
| dc.identifier | https://orcid.org/0009-0003-0997-0599 | |
| dc.identifier.citation | Oswald, Matthew Egon Marshall. (2023). Eliminating Potentiality from Pure Powers. [Master's dissertation, University of the Witwatersrand, Johannesburg]. WIReDSpace. https://hdl.handle.net/10539/40029 | |
| dc.identifier.uri | https://hdl.handle.net/10539/40029 | |
| dc.language.iso | en | |
| dc.publisher | University of the Witwatersrand, Johannesburg | |
| dc.rights | ©2023 University of the Witwatersrand, Johannesburg. All rights reserved. The copyright in this work vests in the University of the Witwatersrand, Johannesburg. No part of this work may be reproduced or transmitted in any form or by any means, without the prior written permission of University of the Witwatersrand, Johannesburg. | |
| dc.rights.holder | University of the Witwatersrand, Johannesburg | |
| dc.school | School of Social Sciences | |
| dc.subject | Metaphysics | |
| dc.subject | Philosophy | |
| dc.subject | Properties | |
| dc.subject | Megarian Actualism | |
| dc.subject | Dispositionalism | |
| dc.subject | UCTD | |
| dc.title | Eliminating Potentiality from Pure Powers | |
| dc.type | Dissertation |