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Anne Sophie Meincke
Dispositionalism
Perspectives from Metaphysics and the Philosophy
of Science
1st ed. 2020
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Anne Sophie Meincke
Department of Philosophy, University of Vienna, Vienna, Austria
Centre for the Study of Life Sciences (Egenis), University of Exeter,
Exeter, UK
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To my son Friedrich
Acknowledgements
This volume is a key outcome of the research project Powers and the
Identity of Agents, which was funded by the Austrian Science Fund
(FWF), project number 23059, and led by Edmund Runggaldier as the
Principal Investigator at the Department of Christian Philosophy of the
University of Innsbruck, Austria. I was a Research Fellow on this project
from 2011 to 2014, and I have continued thinking about powers and
dispositions ever since.
The majority of the papers in this volume originated at the
conference “The Ontological Commitments of Dispositionalism”, funded
by the grant and held in Innsbruck, Austria, from 31st July to 2nd
August 2013. I am grateful to all participants in that event, speakers
and audience, to the Austrian Science Fund, as well as to the Vice-
Chancellor for Research and the International Relations Of�ice of the
University of Innsbruck for additional �inancial support. Thanks are
also due to Daniel Wehinger, Monika Datterl, and Ksenia Scharr for
assisting me in organising the conference.
This volume would not have been possible without the enthusiasm
and hard work of its contributors. I am deeply indebted to all of you for
your willingness to take part in this project and for your patience along
the way. An anonymous reviewer made helpful comments on an earlier
version of the book manuscript, which were greatly appreciated. I am
also grateful to the project members, Christian Kanzian, Josef Quitterer,
Edmund Runggaldier, and Daniel Wehinger, and to everybody else with
whom I had the chance to discuss matters concerning powers and
dispositions in the past years. Special thanks in this latter regard I
would like to offer to Rani Lill Anjum, Alexander Bird, Thomas
Buchheim, John Dupré, Florian Fischer, Steven French, Ruth Groff, John
Heil, Ludger Jansen, Geert Keil, Anna Marmodoro, Thomas Müller,
Stephen Mumford, Timothy O’Connor, John Pemberton, Markus
Schrenk, Barbara Vetter, and Neil E. Williams.
There is no book without a publisher. Therefore, I would like to
express my gratitude to Otávio Bueno for including this volume in the
Synthese Library and to Ties Nijssen and Christopher Wilby from
Springer for their practical support.
In the course of working on this project, my son Friedrich grew up
in the vicinity of my desk from a toddler to a young boy. I dedicate the
book to him, who is the most precious treasure of my heart.
Exeter, UK
June 2019
Anne Sophie Meincke
