A Wittgensteinian Perspective on Dispositions

Acknowledgements
Contents
Abbreviations
1: Introduction
	1.1	 What and Why
	1.2	 Summary
	Bibliography
2: The Current Paradigm on Dispositions
	2.1	 The Empiricist Prejudice
	2.2	 From the Counterfactual Analysis to the “Dispositions First Reaction”
	2.3	 “Naturalistic-reductive Talk” and “Metaphysical Talk”
	2.4	 Armstrong’s Soft Deflationism
	2.5	 Bringing Dispositions “Down to Earth”
	2.6	 Evaluating the Current Paradigm
		2.6.1	 Common Assumptions of a Naturalized Perspective
		2.6.2	 Problems of the Current Paradigm
	Bibliography
3: Dispositions and Rule-following
	3.1	 Wittgenstein, “Kripkenstein” and Dispositions
		3.1.1	 Kripke on Dispositions and Normativity
			Dispositions and Unreliability
			Dispositions and Normativity
		3.1.2	 Conclusions
	3.2	 Wittgenstein’s Dispositionalism
		3.2.1	 The Paradox of Interpretation
		3.2.2	 Following a Rule Is a Practice
		3.2.3	 Understanding as “mastery of a technique”
		3.2.4	 To Sum Up
	Bibliography
4: Wittgenstein on Dispositions as Abilities
	4.1	 Wittgenstein Naturalized
	4.2	 Wittgenstein De-naturalized
	4.3	 Wittgenstein’s Use of the Concept of Disposition
		4.3.1	 Dispositions Versus States of Consciousness
		4.3.2	 State of an Apparatus Versus State of Consciousness
		4.3.3	 Criteria of the Dispositional
		4.3.4	 Variety of Uses of the Concept of Power
		4.3.5	 Where We Are and Where We Are Leading to
	4.4	 Dispositions, But in a De-naturalized Sense
		4.4.1	 Don’t Be Misguided by the Term “disposition”
		4.4.2	 Against the Causal Account of Language (pace Horwich)
	4.5	 Other Dispositional Elements
	Bibliography
5: De-naturalizing Dispositions: Ryle Helps Wittgenstein
	5.1	 Introduction: What We Have Achieved So Far
	5.2	 Russell’s Insight
	5.3	 A Methodological Interlude
	5.4	 Empirical Questions Versus Conceptual Questions
		5.4.1	 Operating with and upon Ideas
	5.5	 From the “Category Mistake” to the “Shadowy Model”
		5.5.1	 Category Mistakes
		5.5.2	 Anti-intellectualist Knowing-how
	5.6	 Ryle’s De-naturalized Dispositionalism
	5.7	 Ryle Helps Wittgenstein
	Bibliography
		Websites
6: Normative Dispositions
	6.1	 Introduction: Dispositions and Rules
	6.2	 Procedural Knowledge
	6.3	 The Normativity Problem
	6.4	 Wittgenstein’s Normative Dispositionalism
		6.4.1	 The Inner-outer Divide
		6.4.2	 Intransitive Grammar
		6.4.3	 The Transparency of Human Nature
	6.5	 A (Provisional) Conclusion
	Bibliography
Index