All Outputs (9)

Collective Powers (2023)
Book Chapter
Guo, X., & Tugby, M. (2023). Collective Powers. In C. J. Austin, A. Marmodoro, & A. Roselli (Eds.), Powers, Parts and Wholes: Essays on the Mereology of Powers (142-166). New York and Abingdon: Oxon: Routledge. https://doi.org/10.4324/9781003298830-11

It is natural to think there are higher-level powers, such as a screen’s powers to display various images, and lower-level powers such as each pixel’s powers to display various colours. Moreover, it is natural to think that higher-level powers depend... Read More about Collective Powers.

A Problem for Natural-Kind Essentialism and Formal Causes (2021)
Book Chapter
Alvarado, J. T., & Tugby, M. (2021). A Problem for Natural-Kind Essentialism and Formal Causes. In L. Jansen, & P. Sandstad (Eds.), Neo-Aristotelian perspectives on formal causation (201-221). Routledge. https://doi.org/10.4324/9780429329821

A combination of formal causation and natural-kind essentialism has good prospects. After all, natural-kind essentialists are under pressure to accept that natural kinds ground or formally cause the properties that characterize them. However, natural... Read More about A Problem for Natural-Kind Essentialism and Formal Causes.

Atoms as Universals (2020)
Book Chapter
Tugby, M. (2020). Atoms as Universals. In U. Zilioli (Ed.), Atomism in philosophy: A history from antiquity to the present (387-399). Bloomsbury Academic

This chapter explores how atomism – the view that there are fundamental indivisible objects – can be combined with a realist ontology of universals. We propose and develop a new theory that views an atom as an instance of a simple universal (such as... Read More about Atoms as Universals.

Organic Powers (2020)
Book Chapter
Tugby, M. (2020). Organic Powers. In A. S. Meincke (Ed.), Dispositionalism : perspectives from metaphysics and the philosophy of science (213-238). Springer Verlag. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-28722-1_13

Dialogue on Rhythm: Entrainment and the Dynamic Thesis (2019)
Book Chapter
Hamilton, A., Macarthur, D., Squires, R., Tugby, M., & Wiseman, R. (2019). Dialogue on Rhythm: Entrainment and the Dynamic Thesis. In P. Cheyne, A. Hamilton, & M. Paddison (Eds.), The philosophy of rhythm : aesthetics, music, poetics (15-42). Oxford University Press. https://doi.org/10.1093/oso/9780199347773.003.0002

The advantages of the dialogue form—in particular, the advantage of openness—have been neglected in post-eighteenth-century philosophy. Unlike the currently dominant journal article form, the present dialogue neither arrives at, nor seeks to impose,... Read More about Dialogue on Rhythm: Entrainment and the Dynamic Thesis.

What Are Dispositional Properties? (2016)
Book Chapter
Tugby, M. (2016). What Are Dispositional Properties?. In M. Jago (Ed.), Reality making (75-98). Oxford University Press. https://doi.org/10.1093/acprof%3Aoso/9780198755722.003.0005

Mirage Realism Revisited (2016)
Book Chapter
Tugby, M. (2016). Mirage Realism Revisited. In F. F. Calemi (Ed.), Metaphysics and scientific realism : essays in honour of David Malet Armstrong (13-30). De Gruyter. https://doi.org/10.1515/9783110455915-002

What Is the Metaphysics of Science? (2013)
Book Chapter
Mumford, S., & Tugby, M. (2013). What Is the Metaphysics of Science?. In S. Mumford, & M. Tugby (Eds.), Metaphysics and science (3-28). Oxford University Press. https://doi.org/10.1093/acprof%3Aoso/9780199674527.003.0001

In this chapter it is argued, for both historical and conceptual reasons, that the metaphysics of science is concerned with the very metaphysical preconditions of science. Scientific disciplines are characterized, at least in part, by their aim to pr... Read More about What Is the Metaphysics of Science?.

The Metaphysics of Pan-dispositionalism (2011)
Book Chapter
Tugby, M. (2012). The Metaphysics of Pan-dispositionalism. In A. Bird, B. Ellis, & H. Sankey (Eds.), Properties, powers, and structures : issues in the metaphysics of realism (165-179). Routledge