IF SOUNDS WERE DISPOSITIONS: A FRAMEWORK PROPOSAL FOR AN UNDEVELOPED THEORY

• Authors: Méndez-Martínez Jorge Luis
• Languages of publication: EN

Abstracts

EN

In the realm of the philosophy of sounds and auditory experience there is an ongoing discussion concerned with the nature of sounds. One of the contestant views within this ontology of sound is that of the Property View, which holds that sounds are properties of the sounding objects. A way of developing this view is through the idea of dispositionalism, namely, by sustaining the theory according to which sounds are dispositional properties (Pasnau 1999; Kulvicki 2008; Roberts 2017). That portrayal, however, is not sufficient, as it has not inquired the metaphysical debates about dispositions beyond the conditional analysis. In this paper, I try to advance this view by including recent developments (for instance Bird 2007; Vetter 2015) in the field of dispositionalism and I analyse whether this new version can sort out known and new objections to Property View.

Keywords

EN

AUDIBILITY; ONTOLOGY OF SOUND; PROPERTY VIEW; SOUNDS

• Publisher: Institute of Philosophy of the Slovak Academy of Sciences and Institute of Philosophy of Academy of Sciences of Czech Republic
• Journal: Organon F. medzinárodný časopis pre analytickú filozofiu
• Year: 2020
• Volume: 27
• Issue: 4
• Pages: 446 – 479

Contributors

author

Méndez-Martínez Jorge Luis

• Higher School of Economics”, Staraya Basmannaya st. 21/4, 105066 Moscow, Russia

Identifiers

DOI

https://doi.org/10.31577/orgf.2020.27403