In this paper, I present data involving the use of Romanian slur ‘țigan’, consideration which leads to postulation a sui-generis, irreducible type slurs (‘identificatory’). This is potentially problematic for extant theories slurs. addition, together with other well-established uses (derogatory, appropriated etc.), it shows that there more variation in than previously acknowledged. explain by c...

Rather than presenting the results of scientific or medical research on Alzheimer’s disease (AD), this paper raises an abstract, philosophical discussion. Philosophy is not a positive science; this, however, does not mean that philosophical theories are mere opinions, since they entail a certain, abstract sui generis structuring and organization of phenomena. The paper first presents the advant...

The concept of information is not different in quantum theory from its counterpart in classical physics: a sui generis quantum information concept is not needed. However, the quantum world is radically different from its classical counterpart. This difference in structure of the material world has important consequences for the amounts of information that can be stored in physical systems and f...

Abstract Lam and Esfeld have argued that, within Bohmian mechanics, the wave function can be interpreted as a physical structure instantiated by fundamental particles posited theory. Further, to characterize nature of this structure, they appeal framework Ontic Structural Realism (OSR), thereby proposing structuralist interpretation mechanics. However, I shall point out that OSR denotes family ...

This article aims to provide an overview of the historiography of psychology textbooks. In the overview, I identify and describe in detail two strands of writing histories of introductory textbooks of psychology and juxtapose them to provide an integrated historiography of textbooks in psychology. One strand is developed by teachers of psychology-first as a general approach for investigating te...

Intellectual Property rights are valuable trading assets in regional and global economic regulation debates, and in particular in World Trade Organisation negotiations. Since the TRIPs agreement merely refers to a limited number of Intellectual Property categories, the scope of obligations in relation to the national and most favoured nation treatment principles is increasingly obscured. The re...