The World Health Organisation's Rationale for Physical Activity: a Philosophical Critique

Evaluation of Physical Activity Status among Yazd High School Students on the Model of the World Health Organization in 2015

Introduction: Physical activity and healthy eating at an early age are two key elements in prevention of Non-Communicable Diseases. Therefore, regular physical activity is recommended to improve public health and to reduce the burden of diseases and medical costs in communities. The aim of this study was to determine the status of physical activity in Yazd high school students Methods: A t...

Managing for secure organisations: a critique of information s

A Critique of the Information Resources of Disaster Databases in the World

A Philosophical Critique of Personality-type Theory in Psychology

Today, any credible philosophical attempt to discuss personhood must take some position on the proper relation between the philosophical analysis of topics like action, intention, emotion, normative and evaluate judgment, desire and mood Cwhich are grouped together under the heading of `moral psychology'C and the usually quite different approaches to ostensibly the same phenomena in contemporar...

Anthony Peressini Consciousness as Integrated Information A Provisional Philosophical Critique

Giulio Tononi (2008) has offered his integrated information theory of consciousness (IITC) as a ‘provisional manifesto’. I critically examine how the approach fares. I point out some (relatively) internal concerns with the theory and then more broadly philosophical ones; finally I assess the prospects for IITC as a fundamental theory of consciousness. I argue that the IITC’s scientific promise ...