Dr. Joseph Black had at one time, a house near us to the west. He was a striking and beautiful person; tall, very thin, and cadaverously pale; his hair carefully powdered, though there was little of it except what was collected in a long thin queue; his eyes dark, clear and large, like deep pools of pure water. He wore black speckless clothes, silk stockings, silver buckles, and either a slim g...

We start this overview by discussing the place of emotions within the broader affective domain-how different are emotions from moods, sensations, and affective dispositions? Next, we examine the way emotions relate to their objects, emphasizing in the process their intimate relations to values. We move from this inquiry into the nature of emotion to an inquiry into their epistemology. Do they p...

[120-150 words] Fitness plays many roles throughout evolutionary theory, from a measure of populations in the wild to a central element in abstract theoretical presentations of natural selection. It has thus been the subject of an extensive philosophical literature, which has primarily centered on the way to understand the relationship between fitness values and reproductive outcomes. If fitnes...

Of recent in Nigeria, there has been a considerable increase the rate of involuntary singlehood, particularly among women. It constitutes major constraint for Christians because general perception that Bible commands everyone to marry – belief which they derive from Genesis 1:28 and 2:18, 24. However, most people who have this notion, hardly take cognisance Paul’s preference celibacy as 1 Corin...

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In recent years it has become more and more difficult to distinguish between metaethical cognitivism and non-cognitivism. (Dreier 2004; van Roojen 2004) The distinction most often used to separate the two camps, until recently at least, was their position on the meaningfulness of moral statements and the applicability of truth-predicates to those statements. Cognitivists are said to hold that m...

Since the turn of the 19 th and 20 th centuries when systematic research on antique Greek mathematics began, the general tone of historiographical work in the field has been dominated by the so-called internalist attitude. H.G. Zeuthen, P. Tannery and others initiated a research tradition whose goal is to reconstruct the mathematical development of the minus 5 th and 4 th century Greece by prov...