Research is the prime need of contemporary Ayurveda, but modern research on Ayurveda has not been very rewarding for Ayurveda itself. Much of it uses Ayurveda to extend modern bioscience. In contrast, Ayurveda needs research designed to test and validate its fundamental concepts as well as its treatments. In this context, if Ayurveda is to be truly explored and validated in all its aspects, sci...

What are rules? In this paper I develop a view of regulative rules which takes them to be distinctive normative kind occupying middle ground between orders and truths. The paradigmatic cases that I'm interested in social like etiquette legal traffic rules. On the I'll propose, rule is general content force due human activity: enactment by an authority or acceptance community. Rules unlike being...