Gutenberg Open Science: Asymmetry cannot solve the circularity/regress problem of property structuralism

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dc.contributor.author	Busse, Ralf	-
dc.date.accessioned	2022-08-03T08:44:40Z	-
dc.date.available	2022-08-03T08:44:40Z	-
dc.date.issued	2021	-
dc.identifier.uri	https://openscience.ub.uni-mainz.de/handle/20.500.12030/7487	-
dc.description.abstract	Strong dispositional monism (SDM), the position that all fundamental physical properties consist in dispositional relations to other properties, is naturally construed as property structuralism. J. Lowe’s circularity/regress objection (CRO) constitutes a serious challenge to SDM that questions the possibility of a purely relational determination of all property essences. The supervenience thesis of A. Bird’s graph-theoretic asymmetry reply to CRO can be rigorously proved. Yet the reply fails metaphysically, because it reveals neither a metaphysical determination of identities on a purely relational basis nor a determination specifically of identities in the sense of essences. Asymmetry is thus not by itself sufficient for a solution to CRO. But it cannot even help to answer CRO when a model for the determination of essences is taken as a basis. Nor is asymmetry necessary for a reply, as property structures may well be symmetric. A metaphysics of dispositional properties as grounded in a purely relational structure faces serious obstacles, and the properties would not be fundamental. Since essence and grounding are notions of metaphysical priority, there can be no essentially dispositional metaphysically fundamental properties, and the prospects of a “coherentist” metaphysics of basic properties are dim. A modal retreat that refrains from a post-modal conception of essence and simply claims that fundamental properties play dispositional roles by metaphysical necessity is unsatisfactory.	en_GB
dc.language.iso	eng	de
dc.rights	CC BY	*
dc.rights.uri	https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/	*
dc.subject.ddc	100 Philosophie	de_DE
dc.subject.ddc	100 Philosophy	en_GB
dc.title	Asymmetry cannot solve the circularity/regress problem of property structuralism	en_GB
dc.type	Zeitschriftenaufsatz	de
dc.identifier.doi	http://doi.org/10.25358/openscience-7473	-
jgu.type.dinitype	article	en_GB
jgu.type.version	Published version	de
jgu.type.resource	Text	de
jgu.organisation.department	FB 05 Philosophie und Philologie	de
jgu.organisation.number	7920	-
jgu.organisation.name	Johannes Gutenberg-Universität Mainz	-
jgu.rights.accessrights	openAccess	-
jgu.journal.title	Synthese	de
jgu.journal.volume	199	de
jgu.pages.start	10685	de
jgu.pages.end	10720	de
jgu.publisher.year	2021	-
jgu.publisher.name	Springer Science + Business Media B.V	de
jgu.publisher.place	Dordrecht u.a.	de
jgu.publisher.issn	1573-0964	de
jgu.organisation.place	Mainz	-
jgu.subject.ddccode	100	de
jgu.publisher.doi	10.1007/s11229-021-03264-8	de
jgu.organisation.ror	https://ror.org/023b0x485	-
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