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...

Correspondent inferences in attribution theory deal with assigning causes to behaviour based on true dispositions rather than situational factors. In this paper, we investigate how knowledge representation tools in Artificial Intelligence (AI), such as Bayesian networks (BNs), can help represent such situations and distinguish between the types of clues used in assessing the behaviour (disposit...

In this study, the critical thinking dispositions of post-RN (post-diploma) nurses continuing their education at a mid-sized university were measured before and after the intervention of a three-credit online course. The tool used to measure the changes in critical thinking disposition was the California Critical Thinking Dispositions Inventory (CCTDI). There were no statistically significant i...

Many opponents of free-will libertarianism argue that libertarian free agency is unintelligible. The aim of my talk is to answer them by suggesting that a coherent conception of libertarian freedom is possible if (and, possibly, only if) we adopt dispositionalism as the explanatory framework of human agency. My argument proceeds as follows. First, I classify the existing explanations of human a...

In Mumford’s Dispositions, the reader will find an extended treatment of the recent debate about dispositions from Ryle and Geach to the present. Along the way, Mumford presents his own views on several key points, though we found the book much more thorough in its assessment of opposing views than in the development of a positive account. As we’ll try to make clear, some of the ideas endorsed ...

The Simple Counterfactual Analysis (SCA) was once considered the most promising analysis of disposition ascriptions. According to SCA, disposition ascriptions are to be analyzed in terms of counterfactual conditionals. In the last few decades, however, SCA has become the target of a battery of counterexamples. In all counterexamples, something seems to be interfering with a certain object’s hav...