Dispositions and the Trojan Fly

Noûs 48 (4):773-780 (2013)
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A detailed consideration of the Trojan fly supertask reveals certain unsuspected characteristics relating to determinism and causation. I propose here a solution to the new difficulty in terms of bare dispositions

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10.1111/nous.12012

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Jon Perez Laraudogoitia
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