The erosion of metaphysics that began in Modernity has led to the discredit whole project natural theology as a means reach God, establish classical divine attributes, and account for action. After deconstruction propelled by thinkers associated with Protestant tradition philosophers affiliated Nietzschean critique, it may appear only an apophatic approach God would then be possible. However, a...

Drawing largely on Aidoo’s (1970) play, Anowa, as well as lived experiences, I argue on the philosophical flaws of Ashcroft’s (2009) claim that there is no inherent link between language and culture. This essay subsequently explores the implication of my argument on some transformational domains of English in particular though it has obvious applicability to the role of colonial languages in ge...

Lencucha and Thow’s paper offers an important addition and corrective to the burgeoning body of work in public health on the ‘commercial determinants of health’ in the context of non-communicable diseases (NCDs). Rather than tracing the origins of incoherence across policy sectors to the nefarious actions of industry, they argue that we need to be better attuned to the ...

Kant’s Staatsrecht in his “Metaphysics of Morals” likely represents the sharpest analysis and critique democratic modernity after 1789. At same time, it provides a unique outlook on future modern representative democracy. This has gone largely unnoticed, with scholars often lamenting problematic nature late text, blamed either author’s supposed senility or inscrutable composition resulting from...

kripke bas proposed a number of counteretxamples to the classic thesis, which ays that the class of necmary fropositions roincidn with the cla1ss of a priori ones. these counteretxamples involve some necessary a posten'ori trutbs as well as contingent a priori ones. om cfbis exmnplu far the loller is the 1ta11dard metre example. in thi1 paper, after presenting a brief sketch of kripke&apos...

In their recent editorial Mannion and Braithwaite provide an insightful critique of traditional patient safety improvement efforts, and offer a powerful alternative vision based on Safety-II thinking that has the potential to radically transform the way we approach patient safety. In this commentary, I explore how the Safety-II perspective points to new directions for organisational learning in...

In his recent commentary, Gorik Ooms argues that “denying that researchers, like all humans, have personal opinions … drives researchers’ personal opinion underground, turning global health science into unconscious dogmatism or stealth advocacy, avoiding the crucial debate about the politics and underlying normative premises of global health.” These ‘unconscious’ dimensions of global health are...

the present article studies husserl’s solution about the possibility of knowledge. this solution expresses itself in the constitutive analyses that he has made. by using decartes’methodic doubt, husserl establishes pure consciousness. then he describes phenomenologically its data and shows how to be constituted phenomena in consciousness. after explaining the process of the constitution of mate...