Adaptive abilities

IF 0.6 3区 哲学 0 PHILOSOPHY
Erasmus Mayr, Barbara Vetter
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Abstract

Abilities, in contrast to mere dispositions, propensities, or tendencies, abilities seem to be features of agents that put the agent herself in control. But what is the distinguishing feature of abilities vis‐à‐vis other kinds of powers? Our aim in this paper is to point, in answer to this question, to a crucial feature of abilities that existing accounts have tended to neglect: their adaptivity. Adaptivity is a feature of how abilities are exercised. The main reason for its relative neglect has been that most extant accounts have focused solely on whether abilities are exercised successfully in certain possible situations and have mostly understood the exercise of an ability in terms of complete successful performance. We begin by pointing out two aspects of abilities with regard to which current accounts seem (at best) incomplete: control and exercise. We then introduce adaptivity as we understand it, and end by putting it to work in developing a fuller understanding of abilities that does better than current accounts.
自适应能力
能力,与单纯的性格、倾向或倾向相反,能力似乎是主体的特征,使主体自己处于控制之中。但是,与其他种类的能力相比,能力的显著特征是什么?为了回答这个问题,我们在本文中的目的是指出现有描述往往忽视的能力的一个关键特征:它们的适应性。适应性是如何运用能力的一个特征。它相对被忽视的主要原因是,大多数现存的描述只关注能力是否在某些可能的情况下被成功地锻炼,而大多是从完全成功的表现来理解能力的锻炼。我们首先指出两个方面的能力,关于经常帐户似乎(充其量)不完整:控制和行使。然后,我们引入我们所理解的适应性,并最终将其用于开发对能力的更全面理解,从而比经常账户做得更好。
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Philosophical Issues
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