Explaining with Dispositions

In this chapter, I will attempt some non-causal explanations in terms of dispositions: the (non-constitutive) explanation of non-accidental regularities, sometimes called governance, and the (constitutive) explanation of laws of nature. This will also be an opportunity to present and discuss a taxonomy of the kinds non-causal explanations required. These explanations are pursued with a deflationary spirit in mind, discharging property-talk, essence-talk, and similar conceptual resources usually deployed for this job. The explanans are comparatively simpler, to lay the foundation of a theory of Dispositional Reality with some winning theoretical virtues. Therefore, the chapter functions as partial corroboration for Dispositional Reality as an explanatory hypothesis.