This paper addresses the use of dispositions in the Infectious Disease Ontology (IDO). IDO is an ontology constructed according to the principles of the Open Biomedical Ontology (OBO) Foundry and uses the Basic Formal Ontology (BFO) as an upper ontology. After providing a brief introduction to disposition types in BFO and IDO, we discuss three general techniques for representing combinations of...

Motivation: This paper extends Röhl & Jansen's (2011) model of dispositions by introducing a relation of parthood between dispositions to formalize multi-track dispositions. Results: We suggest axioms for parthood relations between dispositions and discuss possible applications to life sciences.

In this paper, we embark on the complicated discussion about nature of vice in Virtue Ethics through a twofold approach: first, by taking seriously claim that virtues (and certain flavours vices) are genuinely dispositional features possessed agents, and secondly, employing pluralistic attitude borrowed from Battaly’s pluralism (2008). Through these lenses, identify three varieties viciousness:...

In an earlier paper in these pages, we explored the puzzling link between dispositions and conditionals. First, we rehearsed the standard counterexamples to the simple conditional analysis and the refined conditional analysis defended by David Lewis. Second, we attacked a tempting response to these counterexamples: what we called the ―getting specific strategy‖. Third, we presented a series of ...