Abstract

Welcome to the second volume of the Balkan Analytic Forum’s proceedings, featuring contributions from BAF2: Dispositions and BAF2+: Dispositions and Values. It is a pleasure and honor to co-edit these proceedings with Dr. Miroslava Trajkovski for the second consecutive year. This volume showcases the vibrant intellectual community and the spirit of curiosity that animate the Balkan Analytic Forum. Now entering its third year, the Forum continues to foster regional philosophical community and international scholarly exchange while engaging global philosophical conversations. Rooted in analytic philosophy, it also seeks to bridge traditions, welcoming approaches that connect analytic methods with phenomenological, historical, and other philosophical perspectives and traditions. Reflecting this commitment to intellectual breadth, the essays collected here engage the concept of dispositions through a variety of philosophical methods and traditions. They explore dispositions as epistemological, ontological, and ethical phenomena, theorizing their nature and function within domains including evidentiary reasoning, cosmological theorizing, virtue ethics, aesthetic experience, and philosophy of mind. The Forum’s vibrant intellectual community owes immense gratitude to Dr. Miroslava Trajkovski, whose leadership and unwavering commitment have created a collaborative space where philosophical curiosity thrives. The Balkans’ rich intellectual history reminds us that philosophical vitality often emerges at the intersection of traditions. The Forum carries that spirit forward in the work collected here. Emily C. McWilliams