Why does anything happen? What is the best account of natural necessity? In this book,
William A. Bauer presents and defends a comprehensive account of the internal structure of …

This chapter introduces and discusses the concept of Dispositional Reality. To believe that
there is Dispositional Reality is to believe that (at least some) dispositional talk is not merely …

Something is good insofar as it achieves its end, so says a neo-Aristotelian view of
goodness. Powers/dispositions are paradigm cases of entities that have an end, so say …

By “pantheism” I mean to pick out a model of God on which God is identical with the totality
of existents constitutive of the universe. I assume that, on pantheism, God is an …

Modern science cannot do without Aristotelian powers–thus have argued Cartwright and
Pemberton (2013) among many others. Aristotelian powers are essentially dynamic entities …

Thomas Aquinas is known for having endorsed the view that in our universe everything
strives for a certain purpose. According to him not only rational agents act for the sake of …

In his landmark book on philosophical theology, Saving God: Religion After Idolatry, Mark
Johnston develops a panentheistic metaphysic of the divine that he contends is compatible …

Libertarians typically believe that we are morally responsible for the decisions (or choices)
we make only if those decisions are free, and our decisions are free only if they are neither …

In this chapter I will present an epistemology for Dispositional Reality. According to the neo-
Quinean methodology proposed in earlier chapters, and hereby expanded, to score a point …

The recent economic crisis has re-ignited the debate over the institution of fractional reserve
banking (FRB) and its possible adverse economic effects. This paper brings a so far …