Volume 88, 2014
Dispositions, Habits, and Virtues
Travis Dumsday
Pages 101-112
Dispositionalism, Categoricalism, and Metaphysical Naturalism
In contemporary analytic metaphysics there are five theories concerning the reality (or unreality) of dispositional and categorical properties and their relationship: mixed view dispositionalism (also the dominant view in Scholastic philosophy of nature), pan-dispositionalism, categoricalism, identity theory, and neutral monism. Here I outline briefly a novel argument against metaphysical naturalism, one based on the idea that none of these five theories is compatible with it.