A Commentary on Ambedkar’s Posthumously Published “Philosophy of Hinduism”

On Doing Helpful Philosophy - Commentary on 'Redefining Ecological Ethics: Science, Policy, and Philosophy at Cape Horn'

In the twentieth century, philosophy (especially within the United States) embraced the notion of disciplinary expertise: philosophical research consists of working with and writing for other philosophers. Projects that involve non-philosophers earn the deprecating title of "applied" philosophy. The University of North Texas (UNT) doctoral program in philosophy exemplifies the possibility of a ...

The Life of Hinduism

A religion of the book? On sacred texts in hinduism

In this article I provide an overview of the identity, role and function of sacred texts in Hinduism. Hinduism’s tremendous diversity extends to the numerous ways in which different types of texts have been identified as sacred and used by Hindu practitioners. It would be a mistake to attempt to summarise the role of sacred texts in the lives of Hindus, since different texts have had different ...

Commentary: Similar Philosophy Does Not Always Synchronize

A Short Commentary on the Recent Published Paper: “A Systematic Review on Medication Errors

Volume 8(2): 006 (2016)-06 In their interesting paper entitled “A systematic Review on Medication Errors”, Karthikeyan et al. performed a systematic literature review about medication errors in prescribing, transcribing, dispensing, administrating and documenting, in order to identify the main contributory factors involved. Given the heterogeneity of the studies they considered, they did not st...