To determine whether dispositions are causally relevant, we have to get clear about what causal relevance is. Several characteristics of causal relevance have been suggested, including Explanatory Power, Counterfactual Dependence, Lawfulness, Exclusion, Independence, and Minimal Sufficiency. Different accounts will yield different answers about the causal relevance of dispositions. However, acc...

Kesin hükümsüz bir hukukî işlemin, benzer ekonomik sonuçlar doğuran başka işleme çevrilerek ayakta tutulmasına tahvil denir. Tahvil müessesesi, Alman hukukunun aksine genel hükümle düzenlenmemesine rağmen, Türk ve İsviçre hukukunda da kabul görmektedir. Bununla birlikte tahvilin hangi temele dayandığı hususunda farklı görüşler vardır. Unsurlarının mevcut olması hâlinde tahvil, re’sen gerçekleşi...

Examining the role of dispositions (potentials and propensities) in both physics and psychology reveals that they are commonly derivative dispositions, so called because they derive from other dispositions. Furthermore, when they act, they produce further propensities. Together, therefore, they appear to form discrete degrees within a structure of multiple generative levels. It is then construc...

Abstract: A basic principle associated with competent evaluation practice asserts that evaluators should possess the education, abilities, skills, and experience needed to undertake tasks proposed in an evaluation. For those training this also means teaching professional dispositions, because individual’s dispositions (i.e., beliefs values) influence how they will act as professionals. Personal...

Critical thinking (CT) is important to nursing education and practice. Although there is evidence that active learning approaches, such as problem-based learning (PBL), are effective in developing CT dispositions, the findings are inconclusive. This study examines the effect of PBL on the development of CT dispositions in nursing students using a crossover-experimental study in a course offered...

In this paper I will defend the view that, according to Locke, secondary qualities are dispositions produce sensations in us. Although is widely attributed interpretation needs defending for two reasons. First, commentators often assume that dispositional properties because Locke calls them “powers” sensations. However, primary also powers, so powers locution insufficient grounds justifying dis...

Previous research has identified graduating teachers’ dispositions towards teaching with Information and Communications Technologies (ICTs) as a significant issue for teacher preparation programs. Both increased community access to ICTs and changes to the teacher preparation program may have affected those dispositions in recent years. Although it is not clear which factors have contributed mos...