BOTANY AND CIVIC INSECURITY appear, at first glance, incompatible. Most plants are sedentary. Patience distinguishes those who study them. For Kant, flowers embodied the idea of an end in themselves: they exemplified the autonomy of the aesthetic. "Flowers are free beauties of nature," he wrote, classing flowers under the heading pulchritudo vap,a. He meant beauty that eludes utilitarian evalua...

We live an age of cultural relativism that asks how universal moral obligation can be justified. Immanuel Kant took up this challenge. His arguments can be reconstructed in a way that makes sense today.

The present work deals with the supply chain problems related to perishable products. The EOQ model has been used to analyze the data collected and suggest a ordering policy that will minimize the loses and maximize the organizational value. The work provides a suggestion for managers to take decision regarding use of self space and reordering of items depending on the inventory usage.

I show that Kant’s phrase Ding an sich denotes, not a type of thing, but a type of object: namely, an object which is per se a thing. My interpretation is based on the assumption that Kant follows the traditional use of the terms objectum and res. Kant’s distinction between phenomenon and noumenon is a distinction between types of object: a “distinction of all objects in general into phenomena ...

In an interlingual knowledge-based machine translation system, ambiguity arises when the source 1.qnguage analyzer produces more than one interlingua expression for a source sentence. This can have a negative impact on translation quality, since a target sentence may be produced from an unintended meaning. In this paper we describe the ,nethods nsed in the KANT machine translation system to red...

This paper examines an issue at the centre of feminist debates about pornography and sex work, and that is whether these practices reduce women to sex objects. I question the assumption that the expression of sexual desire is unique in its power to degrade and dehumanize persons. I show that this assumption underlies Catharine MacKinnon’s attack on pornography by considering MacKinnon’s intelle...

In the opening pages of his 1966 Locke Lectures, Science and Metaphysics: Variations on Kantian Themes, Wilfrid Sellars alludes to what he takes to be the ambiguity or “Janus-faced” character of Kant’s notion of “intuition” as developed in the Critique of Pure Reason (Sellars, 1966, p. 2). Appealing first to the formal distinction between intuitions and concepts, he notes that in Kant’s taxonom...