Developments in personality-social psychology, in social cognition, and in cognitive neuroscience have led to an emerging conception of personality dynamics and dispositions that builds on diverse contributions from the past three decades. Recent findings demonstrating a previously neglected but basic type of personality stability allow a reconceptualization of classic issues in personality and...

The authors of this study take the scientific position that of the major technologies of the future will be companion systems. This study examines which emotions and dispositions are relevant in this regard. It assesses which emotions and dispositions in the experienced scenarios of man-machine interactions are retroactively reflected in comparison with man-man interaction. The sample consisted...

Natural scientists have offered reasons to think that some vile human acts evolutionary explanations. Christians would describe of these as sins, and indeed sins potentially worthy damnation. However, I argue that, on the supposition such causes, agents who commit are not justly damnable for in question. This is because justice damnation minimally depends two criteria: 1) sinful properly volunt...

A defense of the causal efficacy of dispositions" (2004). Faculty Publications-Department of Philosophy. Paper 32. Disposition terms, such as 'cowardice,' 'fragility' and 'reactivity,' often appear in explanations. Sometimes we explain why a man ran away by saying that he was cowardly, or we explain why something broke by saying it was fragile. Scientific explanations of certain phenomena featu...

The intracellular dispositions of clarithromycin and azithromycin in AIDS patients requiring Mycobacterium avium complex (MAC) prophylaxis were studied. The dispositions of both drugs in mononuclear and polymorphonuclear leukocytes were markedly different. Our data support the proven efficacy of these agents for MAC prophylaxis since clarithromycin and azithromycin displayed sustained intracell...