Organon F
Volume 27, November 2020, Issue 4, Pages 446–479
ISSN 2585-7150 (online) ISSN 1335-0668 (print)
Research Article
If Sounds Were Dispositions: a Framework Proposal for an Undeveloped Theory
Jorge Luis Méndez-Martínez
https://doi.org/10.31577/orgf.2020.27403
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.
Audibility; dispositions; ontology of sound; potentiality; property view; sounds.
Author
Jorge Luis Méndez-Martínez
Affiliation
National Research University – “Higher School of Economics”
Address
International Laboratory of Logics and Linguistics, School of Philosophy, National Research University – “Higher School of Economics”, Staraya Basmannaya st. 21/4, 105066 Moscow, Russian Federation
Received
17 May 2019
Accepted
5 June 2020
Published online
18 June 2020
Publishers
Institute of Philosophy of the Slovak Academy of Sciences
Institute of Philosophy of the Czech Academy of Sciences
APA
Méndez-Martínez, J.L. (2020). If Sounds Were Dispositions: a Framework Proposal for an Undeveloped Theory. Organon F, 27(4), 446–479. https://doi.org/10.31577/orgf.2020.27403
Chicago
Méndez-Martínez, Jorge Luis. 2020. "If Sounds Were Dispositions: a Framework Proposal for an Undeveloped Theory." Organon F 27 (4): 446–479. https://doi.org/10.31577/orgf.2020.27403
Harvard
Méndez-Martínez, J.L. (2020). If Sounds Were Dispositions: a Framework Proposal for an Undeveloped Theory. Organon F, 27(4), pp. 446–479. https://doi.org/10.31577/orgf.2020.27403
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