This paper problematises the justification of ‘postist’ revisions humanism. In first part paper, a line thought that persistently marks self-perception man is presented. It stretches from Plato, through Pico della Mirandola and Kant, all way to existentialism philosophical anthropology in twentieth century. it, understood as chronically deficient their own ‘nature’ or ‘essence’, his privileged ...

Motivation. The theory of affine (Kac-Moody) Lie algebras has been a tremendous success story. Not only has one been able to generalize essentially all of the well-developed theory of finite-dimensional simple Lie algebras and their associated groups to the setting of affine Lie algebras, but these algebras have found many striking applications in other parts of mathematics. It is natural to as...

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BACKGROUND The indiscriminate use of cough and cold medicines (CCMs) in children has become a public health concern. The study evaluates the prescription pattern of CCMs in primary care setting. METHODS Analysis of CCMs prescription data among children aged 12 years and below who had participated in the National Medical Care Survey (NMCS) 2010. Data was extracted from NMCS 2010, a cross-secti...

Moody is right that the doctrine of conscious inessentialism (CI) is false. Unfortunately, his zombie-based argument against (CI), once made suf-ciently clear to evaluate, is revealed as nothing but legerdemain. The fact is, though Moody has|for reasons I explain|convinced himself otherwise , certain zombies are impenetrable: that they are zombies, and not conscious beings like us, is something...