Abstract Many contemporary biologists and philosophers of biology admit that selection occurs at any level the biological hierarchy which entities showing heritable variation in fitness are found, while insisting entails differential reproduction, not persistence. Those who allow persistence can be selected doubt on nonreproducing reiterated, to produce “complex adaptations.” We present here a ...

Anyone who has built or remodeled a house and has developed or enhanced SW must have noticed the similarity of these activities. This talk describes some lessons about requirements engineering I learned while being a customer in a house building and two house remodeling. The biggest problem is to avoid very expensive requirements creep. The main lesson is the importance of the customer insistin...

Este artículo presenta de forma divulgativa y ordenada el pensamiento la filósofa Marina Garcés. Siguiendo los cuatro momentos básicos en que filosofía clásica suele estructurarse, exponemos su epistemología, ontología, ética política, insistiendo siempre carácter práctico pensamiento. This article presents in an informative and orderly way the thought of philosopher Following four basic moment...

Abstract With the increased use of simulations as investigative tools in various scientific fields, question naturally arises to how these are epistemically justified. One natural approach is insist that numerical aspects simulation justification be performed separately from physical aspects, but Winsberg (2010) has argued this impossible for highly complex simulations. Based on a survey and cl...

With the move to online and blended learning, there has been much focus amongst educators on webcam use in classes. Mandatory policies privileging of webcams as preferred form engagement disregard COVID-19 context – which students have had limited choice about learning or modes significantly undermine trust. This piece argues for adoption a pedagogy kindness, through teaching practices that are...

Legitimacy is a concept that has been largely forgotten by the deconstructive discourse on law and politics. This article seeks, one hand, to reassess role of legitimacy in deconstruction and, other bring thinking bear legitimacy. By re-reading Derrida’s “Declarations Independence” through lenses his later texts sovereignty (counter)signature, it argued that, rather than being deconstructible, ...

the most skeptical approach towards the authenticity of islamic original textss, was represented in the late 1970s by john wansbrough. by insisting that isnad of hadiths and bibliographical information are not reliable, wansbrough suggested literary analysis instead of dating of all early islamic texts including the quran. by employing literary analysis to early islamic texts of exegesis, hadit...

This article encapsulates the dialectics between law and science in time of Covid-19 pandemic. It attempts to appraise objectivity normativity Health Protocol by rendering both legal scientific characteristics. As a construct, is genealogically justified from three discursive aspects of: its position science, reflection on matter materiality law, immanent power within it. A close scrutiny towar...

Increasing evidence shows that different ethnic groups respond differently to educational, psychosocial, and pharmacological interventions. If diverse communities are to benefit from the implementation of appropriately derived evidence then it is imperative that the ethnic diversity of populations under study are reflected in clinical trials. In the United States, since 1993, the National Insti...

This Reply to Critics takes the vantage point of “affordances” to respond to the reviews of five noted scholars of law, philosophy and political science to Smart Technologies and the End(s) of Law: Novel Entanglements of Law and Philosophy. The reply interacts with the points made, by revisiting the dependencies between law and its technological embodiment, insisting that we cannot take for gra...