... to the elect or the damned and then hopefully observes her own actions to gain some hint of what her fundamental choice might be. To explain why an individual might adopt one disposition rather than the other Kant adduces a set of innate human “propensities” and “predispositions.” Such propensities...

... predisposition (Anlage) to good, which manifests itself in three particular ways (R 6:26–28). First, we have a predisposition to animality, a kind of mechan- ical self-love through which we are naturally inclined to take care of our interests as natural social beings— through self-preservation...

... version of reliabilism, there are three types of knowledge: foundational, truth-tracking knowledge; evidence-based inferential knowledge; and knowledge where one simply has a true standing belief, that is, when one has an “innate predisposition to form [a belief] that is largely independent of input...

...- gage theorists of many theoretical predisposition WILLIAMNELSON University of Houston 5My thanks to David Phillips for his comments on a draft of this review. The Philosophical him,Vol. 109, No. 1 (January 2000...

... REWEWS Nevertheless, its sophisticated discussion of institutional design should en- gage theorists of many theoretical predisposition WILLIAMNELSON University of Houston 5My thanks to David Phillips for his comments on a draft...

...”) draws inspiration from Kant to propose a novel conception of humanity as the capacity for rational agency along with predispositions of moral feeling, conscience, love, and respect. Humanity, according to Railton, combines a rational component with affective and nonrational tendencies to have certain...

... to reject both Kant’s appeals to “the natural purposiveness built into our predispositions or faculties” and the “unenlightened” conclusions that Kant took such appeals to support, such as those about the wrongness of suicide, lying, and many forms of sexual behavior (330; compare 172, 224ff These two...

... to reject both Kant’s appeals to “the natural purposiveness built into our predispositions or faculties” and the “unenlightened” conclusions that Kant took such appeals to support, such as those about the wrongness of suicide, lying, and many forms of sexual behavior (330; compare 172, 224ff These two...

... to reject both Kant’s appeals to “the natural purposiveness built into our predispositions or faculties” and the “unenlightened” conclusions that Kant took such appeals to support, such as those about the wrongness of suicide, lying, and many forms of sexual behavior (330; compare 172, 224ff These two...

... predispositions or faculties” and the “unenlightened” conclusions that Kant took such appeals to support, such as those about the wrongness of suicide, lying, and many forms of sexual behavior (330; compare 172, 224ff These two 105 BOOK REVIEWS...

... to reject both Kant’s appeals to “the natural purposiveness built into our predispositions or faculties” and the “unenlightened” conclusions that Kant took such appeals to support, such as those about the wrongness of suicide, lying, and many forms of sexual behavior (330; compare 172, 224ff These two...

... to reject both Kant’s appeals to “the natural purposiveness built into our predispositions or faculties” and the “unenlightened” conclusions that Kant took such appeals to support, such as those about the wrongness of suicide, lying, and many forms of sexual behavior (330; compare 172, 224ff These two...

... predispositions or faculties” and the “unenlightened” conclusions that Kant took such appeals to support, such as those about the wrongness of suicide, lying, and many forms of sexual behavior (330; compare 172, 224ff These two 105 BOOK REVIEWS...

... to reject both Kant’s appeals to “the natural purposiveness built into our predispositions or faculties” and the “unenlightened” conclusions that Kant took such appeals to support, such as those about the wrongness of suicide, lying, and many forms of sexual behavior (330; compare 172, 224ff These two...

... expect him to be talking about the discursive understanding in general. Thus, right at the start of the Transcendental Analytic, Kant writes that he “will therefore pursue the pure concepts into their first seeds and predispositions in the human understanding” (A66/B91 [our italics]; cf. B110, A85/B117...

... is justified in exploring the way she does, and to search for a deeply rationalizing explanation of her action. Some learning processes are also governed by merely causal, rather than rational, principles. For example, face recognition abilities originate with an innate predisposition to look...

... to vote? (3) Do I care about the outcome? and (4) Do I find it easy to vote?” The first and second answers reflect “stable” and “basic predispositions,” which are also the “most powerful” determinants of whether one votes (103). The first—political interest—“is not a simple matter of taste; it defines who...

.... And in the gustatory case, these factors include such associations, as well as genetic predispositions, age, gender, and exposure or familiarity with specific foods (see, for example, Birch 1999). At this stage, the argument against subjectivist versions of VUH runs parallel to Block’s argument against...