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Robin Stenwall

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A new challenge for objective uncertainties and the propensity theorist

Author

  • Robin Stenwall
  • Johannes Persson
  • Nils-Eric Sahlin

Summary, in English

The paper is concerned with the existence of objective uncertainties. What would it take for objective uncertainties to exist, and what would be the consequences for our understanding of the world we live in? We approach these questions by considering two common theories on how we are to understand the being of propensities and how it pertains to possible outcomes that remain unmanifested. It is argued that both or these theories should be rejected, and be replaced with a theory we call unrestricted actualism according to which the possible outcomes of propensities (whether realized or unrealized) are denizens of the actual world.

Department/s

  • Theoretical Philosophy
  • VBE
  • Medical Ethics

Publishing year

2018-08-28

Language

English

Pages

219-224

Publication/Series

Metaphysica

Volume

19

Issue

2

Document type

Journal article

Publisher

Springer

Topic

  • Philosophy
  • Medical Ethics

Keywords

  • propensity theory
  • philosophy of probability
  • dispositions
  • actualism
  • possibilism

Status

Published

Project

  • Science and Proven Experience

Research group

  • VBE

ISBN/ISSN/Other

  • ISSN: 1874-6373