【Philosophy】African philosophy cannot be a thing
This essay unpacks several arguments about the metaphilosophic nature of African philosophy and charts a way through the problems these arguments enco... [more]
【Philosophy】Fusion Philosophy and Epistemic Injustice
I use the concept of epistemic injustice to think through the practice and methodology of comparative, or fusion, philosophy. I make two related claim... [more]
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The state of nature: The political philosophy of primitivism and the culture of contamination
The 'state of nature' could be understood in two senses; both in terms of its nature's current (sorry) condition and of that unmediated and pre-contractual relation between humanity and the environment posited by political philosophers like Locke and R
Marketing - A critical realist approach
The debate in marketing about the philosophy of science that would be most appropriate for the discipline ended in the early 1990s with realism as the apparent victor. However, there are many variations within the realist camp. One particular version - cr
Treatment aims and philosophy in the treatment of adolescent anorexia nervosa in Europe
This study describes the range of service provision and explores differences in treatment approaches and therapeutic aims, in the 12 countries participating in the European Union collaborative COST B6 Adolescent Project into the treatment of adolescent an
Philosophy, engineering, biology, and history: a vindication of Turing's views about the distin
Alan Turing draws a firm line between the mental and the physical, between the cognitive and physical sciences. For Turing, following a tradition that went back to D'Arcy Thompson, if not Geoffroy and Lucretius, throws out talk of function, intentionalit
Synthetic neuroethology
Computation and philosophy intersect three times in this essay. computation is considered as an object, as a method, and as a model used in a certain line of philosophical inquiry concerning the relation of mind to matter. As object, the question consider
Retrograde intramedullary femur nailing with,, Rendez-vous technique. A new philosophy
Objective. The disadvantages of retrograde intramedullary nailing are the necessity of explanting the nail through the knee and the occasional difficulties with proximal interlocking. The new retrograde intramedullary nail includes the following innovatio
Kuhn's wrong turning
Why, despite his enormous influence in the latter part of the twentieth century, has Kuhn left no distinctively Kuhnian legacy? I argue that this is because the development of Kuhn's own thought was in a direction opposite to that of the mainstream of th
Construction of underground works and tunnels in ancient Egypt
The Ancient Egyptian has an important role in developing the use of the underground especially in the construction of. tombs, warehouses, water passages, and tunnels which were used as accesses to tombs, worshipping rooms and the warehouses. These tunnels
Fight the power: The limits of empiricism and the costs of positivistic rigor
A summary of the influence of positivistic philosophy and empiricism on the field of psychology is followed by a critique of the empirical method. The dialectic process is advocated as an alternative method of inquiry. The main advantage of the dialectic
The OMITRON and MODEL OMITRON high field tokamak design philosophy
In this paper the main features of the OMITRON and MODEL OMITRON proposed high field tokamak experiments are illustrated. Of the two, OMITRON is an ambitious device aimed at D-T ignition and beyond that at gathering some first experimental information of
The philosophy, nature and nomenclature of tissue engineering and biomimetics
This paper discusses the rationale for the development of tissue engineering and associated therapies and provides observations on the emerging developments in these areas.
By-catch begone: changes in the philosophy of fishing technology
Since humans began fishing (at least 90 000 years ago), fishing technology has developed with the objective of trying to catch the greatest quantities of fish possible, of an ever-increasing variety. Fishing technology has evolved from simple harpoons and
Minorities and the philosophical marketplace
This article argues for two theses. The first is that many of the sociological factors endemic in the philosophical community function as barriers to the recruitment of members of minority groups in the profession and to their functioning as public intell
Alternative treatments in reproductive medicine - The vexing problem of 'seemingly impeccable t
The problem of 'seemingly impeccable trials' that produce unbelievable results is approached from basic notions of the philosophy of science: facts and theory are interdependent, and 'crucial experiments' do not exist. This does not lead to an 'anyth
Journeying from the philosophical contemplation of constructivism to the methodological pragmatics o
Aim. This paper presents our journey through a contemplation of the philosophical origins of constructivism to consider its role as an active methodology in qualitative research. Method. The first part of the paper summarizes the philosophical background