Roderick Peattie; A Geographic Philosophy

Andreas Maurer/ Roderick Parkes

The upgrading of the European Commission and the European Parliament’s role in the EU policy-process from 1999 might have been expected to herald a shift away from the previous securityand control-orientation of asylum policy. No such shift occurred. This paper traces the continuity in EU asylum policy’s trajectory to the continuity in its ‘policy-image’: actors seeking to fashion institutional...

Roderick MacKinnon - Nobel Lecture

All living cells are surrounded by a thin, approximately 40 Å thick lipid bilayer called the cell membrane. The cell membrane holds the contents of a cell in one place so that the chemistry of life can occur, but it is a barrier to the movement of certain essential ingredients including the ions Na+, K+, Ca2+ and Cl-. The barrier to ion flow across the membrane – known as the dielectric barrier...

Has Richard Rorty a moral philosophy?

در این مقاله سعی دارم نشان دهم که رورتی هرچند همانند کانت فیلسوف اخلاق محسوب نمی­شود، ولی با این حال فلسفۀ اخلاقی دارد که باید آن را جدی گرفت. رورتی به نحو نظام­مند با مسائل اخلاقی درگیر نمی­شود آنطور که فیلسوفان مدرن و معاصر درگیرند. این مقاله دو بخش دارد: بخش نخست با مبانی فلسفۀ رورتی مثل ضد ماهیت باوری، داروین­گرایی، فرویدگرایی و تاریخ­گرایی سروکار دارد. بخش دوم که تا حدودی مفصل است، بسیاری ...

Philosophy of Philosophy of Religion

Indian Philosophy of Mind: A Comparative Study

In this paper I explore surprising parallels in the arguments between dualists and materialists in the philosophy of mind in India and the West. In particular, I compare the Nyaya School of India with Cartesian dualism and its Western defenders and the Carvaka School of India with contemporary Western materialists.