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At the Verge of ‘Is’ and ‘Could Be’: Storytelling as Medium to Develop Critical Ethical Skills
Stories about the socio-technical impact of the outcomes of science, technology, engineering, and mathematics (STEM) on the world may create a concrete sense of the future consequences they may cause. Such sto...
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Asante Nkramo and Fantse Nkramo: Unravelling the Paradox of Islam and Matriliny in Ghana
Islamic laws of inheritance as detailed in the Qur’an and the traditions of the Prophet basically follow patrilineal patterns. It therefore appears that the Islamic ethos is built on patriliny. Yet Islam is mo...
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The Post-Newtonian Blunder, and the Failure to Develop Aim-Oriented Empiricism
Modern science began as natural philosophy. Two ingredients are essential: first, the adoption of the metaphysical conjecture that the universe is such that phenomena obey mathematically precise laws; and seco...
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Creating While Black and Female: Tsitsi Dangarembga’s African Feminist Decolonial Imaginary
Tsitsi Dangarembga has long been that one woman Zimbabwean writer, filmmaker and activist who has gained and maintained international acclaim. She rose to fame through her book Nervous Conditions (1988), which be...
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Meaningful Aging via Lifelong Growth and Development
Carol D. Ryff starts with an overview of the state of the art in the field of aging studies and notes that—early and recent—formulations of successful aging in social gerontology ignore aspects of meaningful a...
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Passing and Flowing: Rhythmical Entanglements of Writing, Painting and Knitting in Virginia Woolf and Berthe Morisot
“[F]or though they must part in the end, painting and writing have much to tell each other: they have much in common”, Virginia Woolf claims. This chapter tracks the relation among writing, painting, and a mor...
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A Critical Civil Society: An Ethical Framework to Control the Power of Algorithms
Given that any democratic proposal must account for the institutional skeleton that sustains it, the aim of this article is to show that this articulation cannot be limited to the state and its laws. Instead, ...
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Acting Before Future Generations
This chapter establishes that intergenerational environmental ethics and policy relating to intergenerational environmental ethics tend to privilege a conception of responsibility premised on continuity and re...
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“Interpretations of Nature” in Polanyi’s Science, Faith and Society
In Science, Faith and Society, Michael Polanyi speaks about various ‘interpretations of nature’. I discuss the items that he has in mind, identify two of his major theses about them, and investigate the extent to...
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Causing and Composing Evolution: Lessons from Evo-Devo Mechanisms
Evolutionary developmental biology (evo-devo) is often vindicated by theoreticians of the field as a mechanistic science that brings a mechanistic perspective into evolutionary biology. Usually, it is also por...
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A Dualist Metaphysics of Nature
I start this chapter with a presentation and critique of Brian Ellis’ new essentialism, which consists in a dualist metaphysics of laws based on both categorical properties and powers. Like Ellis, I defend a d...
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Polanyi’s Copernican Realism: Content, Reception, and Relation to Three Contemporary Realisms
This chapter examines existing interpretations of the most widely commented-upon aspect of Michael Polanyi’s metaphysics, his metaphysical realism. I argue that his position ought to be taken as a form of Cope...
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Catholicism, Climate Change and Pests in Africa
The threat posed by insect pests is one of the major challenges to food production in Africa. By feeding on plant tissues and transmitting viral infections, these pests account for about 49% loss in yearly cro...
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Vulnerability Among the Nairobi Sex Workers, and Undertaking Community-Led Research Without Collecting Personal Data
Sex work is one of the most stigmatised professions in many parts of the world. In Kenya, where it is also , sex workers can even face and at the hands of law enforcement agents when it becomes known how ...
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Said Nursi and Aleksander Solzhenitsyn: Chronologies of Prison Experiences
History is replete with instances of faithful individuals enduring atrocities. Even in contemporary times, many have suffered unjust imprisonment and targeted persecution under authoritarian regimes. Prominent...
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Arguments Showing that Descartes’ Physics is Mathematical
I would like to present four arguments in support of the thesis that Cartesian physics was a mathematical physics. The first two are historical, the other two of a systematic nature. I believe that together th...
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The Meaningful Action and Commitment
The inconsistency of biological and social elements in Searle’s Intentionality apparatus needs a possible reconciliation. A noteworthy approach can be found in the area of the philosophy of action. This is the me...
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Susan Stebbing and Russell’s Logical Atomism
Susan Stebbing held that Russell’s Doctrine of External Relations was incorrect. Interestingly, she also held that Bradley’s Doctrine of Internal Relations was problematic. In this paper, I’ll explain why she ...
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