Collectivized Identity among Shi’a Imami Isma’ili Muslims of Calgary:Implications for Pluralism and Policy

Use of Lower Limb Measurements in Reconstructing Stature among Shia Muslims

The present study aims to reconstruct stature among male and female Shia Muslims of Delhi using lower limb dimensions. To this aim the stature, femur length, tibial length, fibular length, foot length and foot breadth were recorded on each subject using the standard measurement techniques recommended by Martin and Saller 1 The data is composed of 1011 Shia Muslims (503 males and 508 females) wi...

Identity and Foreign Policy

Pluralism and Protection of Personal Identity

The starting hypothesis of the new age atomism was that individuals, such as Robinson, are capable of survival in an environment due to their reason and their own strengths, and that such independent individuals organize a state community on the basis of their own insights and pragmatic needs. The atomistic paradigm failed because of a mistaken calculation of its fundamentals. The new-age reaso...

Compositional Pluralism and Composition as Identity 1

The point of this paper is to assess to what extent compositional pluralism and composition as identity can from a coherent package of views. Since I think there are good arguments for compositional pluralism and I feel the intuition that gives some support to composition as identity, I am motivated to determine this. But regardless of whether you feel attraction to either of these two views, i...

Explanatory Pluralism and The Heuristic Identity Theory

Explanatory pluralism holds that the sorts of comprehensive theoretical and ontological economies, which microreductionists and New Wave reductionists envision and which antireductionists fear, offer misleading views of both scientific practice and scientific progress. Both advocates and foes of employing reductionist strategies at the interface of psychology and neuroscience have overplayed th...