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...

This article presents a general theory of the film spectator from a cognitive perspective. This perspective considers Thagard’s (2000) notion of ‘striving for coherence’ as the most appropriate description of spectators’ mental dispositions toward feature films; it regards Fauconnier & Turner’s (2002) theory of Mental Spaces and Conceptual Blending as the most comprehensive account of human mea...

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...

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...