Belief in the role of Karma explains a variety of Phenomena in India. For a traditional medical system such as Ayurveda, the conflict between simultaneously held beliefs in fatalism and the efficacy of medical interventions poses an interesting dilemma that the tradition has taken pains to consider. Caraka Samhita discusses the role of karma as a determinant of the qualities and personality of ...

Alessandra Taniesini's ‘The Mismeasure of the Self’ develops an internalist account epistemic vice. On this view, vices are grounded in attitudes towards self: fatalism, self-satisfaction, narcissistic infatuation, and self-abasement. The is insofar as it claims to ground both nature normativity vice within subject's skull. In paper, I argue against internalism: vices, show, need a normative ho...

We exploit a unique transportation setting to estimate the value of a statistical life (VSL) in Africa. We observe choices made by travelers to and from the airport in Freetown, Sierra Leone (which is separated from the city by a body of water) among transport options – namely, ferry, helicopter, speed boat, and hovercraft – each with differential historical mortality risk and monetary and time...

History has no subjunctive mood . This cliché done a lot of harm to the science history, even though it is usually voiced on its behalf and presumed express basic methodological attitude. However, maxim obviously disagrees with practice historiography as attested by numerous examples or, rather, counterexamples from classical texts, Greek well Roman, ancient Chinese modern European, including R...