Desires, Dispositions and Deviant Causal Chains

Philosophy 89 (1):83-112 (2014)
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Recent work on dispositions offers a new solution to the long-running dispute about whether explanations of intentional action are causal explanations. The dispute seemed intractable because of a lack of percipience about dispositions and a commitment to Humean orthodoxies about causation on both sides

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