This paper starts from an assumption defended in the author’s previous work. This is that distinctively-human flexible and creative theoretical thinking can be explained in terms of the interactions of a variety of modular systems, with the addition of just a few a-modular components and dispositions. On the basis of that assumption it is argued that distinctively human practical reasoning, too...

INTRODUCTION: The literature shows that persons exhibiting a type A behavior pattern (an unusual sense of time urgency ,excessive job involvement ,and hostile /competitive interpersonal relationships) are more prone to the risk of initial myocardial infarction (4) . Type A behavior pattern may be defined as “a chronic insistent struggle to achieve more and more in less and less time, even if no...

mentally, but because of illness that has kept them out of school; also they are both handicapped through defective hearing. All the others who have failed to stand the test of the course of study have done so for various reasons other than physical ones. The reasons, so far as I can ascertain, are truancy, slow mental development, excessive cigarette smoking, lack of application to their schoo...

In “Teleological Dispositions,” Nick Kroll offers a novel theory of dispositions in terms of primitive directed states. Kroll is clear that his notion of directedness “outstrips talk of goals, purposes, design, and function” (##), and that it commits him to “primitive teleological facts” (##). This notion may strike some as outdated and unscientific, but Kroll argues that it has an important th...

BACKGROUND Given the increasing elderly population worldwide, the identification of potential determinants of successful ageing is important. Many studies have shown that parenting style and mental resilience may influence mental health; however, little is known about the psychological mechanisms that underpin this relationship. The current study sought to explore the relationships among mental...

In Briggs and Nolan 2012, we suggested that advocates of a Nozickian tracking theory of knowledge might do well to appeal to dispositions rather than counterfactuals. (Gundersen 2003 and 2010 makes a similar suggestion, though he prefers a dispositional account of counterfactuals that enables him to retain a conditional tracking analysis.) John Turri (2012) and Ben Bronner (2012) have offered a...