Chapter 1 of this thesis concerns counterfactual conditionals. David Lewis has offered a natural and influential analysis of counterfactuals. But the analysis fails to take into account the asymmetry of entropy, and comes to grief precisely because of that failure. The cause of the grief is that processes involving the increase of entropy are exceedingly sensitive to small changes in their fina...

The scientific knowledge related to online reading dispositions and factors affecting the occurrence of these is limited. Therefore, this treatise aims at studying impact metacognitive strategies on dispositions. To achieve goal, mixed method was employed using questionnaires semi-structured interviews. Students’ responses were keyed AMOS software. statistical analysis has shown students’ prefe...

I'm very pleased to have the opportunity comment on Declan Smithies’ thought-provoking, creative, and ambitious book: The Epistemic Role of Consciousness (‘ERC’).1 Unfortunately I can only discuss a small selection issues that it covers here. I'll focus conception belief Smithies defends in Ch. 4–5 (and further 7–10): beliefs as dispositions cause judgments—specifically, one-track phenomenally ...

According to the standard view, a belief is based on reason and doxastically justified—i.e., permissibly held—only if causal relation obtains between belief. In this paper, I argue that can be justified by reason’s mere disposition sustain it. Such disposition, however, wouldn’t establish connection unless it were manifested. My argument that, in cases have mind, manifestation of would add no p...

Abstract The Ontario Review Board (ORB) makes and reviews dispositions that limit the freedoms of individuals found not criminally responsible (NCR) due to a “mental disorder.” Their must be responsive risk NCR pose public. To assess how is measured, authors studied twenty-six publicly accessible court files pertaining appeal ORB dispositions. hospital reports, ORB’s dispositions, transcripts h...