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What in the world is global health? A conceptual analysis
Abstract This article suggests that the concept of global health – and to an extent the field that it designates ‐ is problematic in various ways. Within public health, the concept of the ‘public’ has been widely investigated. However, “global health” has been introduced in academic, policy, and public discussion with comparably lower level of ...
Alberto Giubilini
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Aristotle’s problem in de Interpretatione ix
In de Interpretatione Aristotle says about antiphasis (pair of sentences that are contradictory) that necessarily one of them is true and the other is false but later in chapter ix tells this thesis doesn’t hold about future contingent singulars because ...
Fereshte Nabati
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Review of The Persistent Problems of Philosophy: An Introduction to Metaphysics Through the Study of Modern Systems. [PDF]
George Martin Duncan
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The Symbolistic Christology in Frantz Fanon's Existentialist Thought
ABSTRACT This article attempts to answer a provocative question: Can existentialist thought provide insights into the nature of Christ? Specifically, what might we learn about Christ from existentialist such as Frantz Fanon, even if only implicitly? In offering a response to the question, I propose a symbolistic Christology through an examination of ...
Chammah J. Kaunda
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Suhrawardi’s Ideas about Syllogism
Shihāb al-Dīn al-Suhrawardī (d. 1194), in his most important book, Hikmat al-Ishrāq, claims that he has simplified the Aristotelian theory of syllogism by reducing its many rules to a few by which the validity of all moods can be proven.
z Movahed
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Meta‐Virtuality: Strategies of Disembeddedness in Virtual Interiorities
ABSTRACT To reclaim their seat in the rapidly growing market of virtual space, designers of the built environment can benefit from reevaluating theories that see the virtual as a mere extension/reflection of the physical. By claiming ontological autonomy from external worlds, the virtual is liberated from the hegemonic control of the physical.
Vahid Vahdat
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Time is one of the most difficult subjects in philosophy. Some philosophers believe that time is a reality and others assume it as an illusion. McTaggart has denied the reality of time.
m a, f Farhanian
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A Realistic Universe. An Introduction to Metaphysics. John E. Boodin. The Macmillan Co.1916. Pp. xxii, 412. [PDF]
R. F. Alfred Hoernlé
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The ‘legal’ in socio‐legal history: Woods and Pirie v. Cumming Gordon
Abstract This article explores the Scottish defamation case Woods and Pirie v. Cumming Gordon (1810–1812) in order to demonstrate the value of legal readings across the broadest spectrum of socio‐legal history. While the case has attracted attention from social historians, particularly historians of sexuality, it was shrouded in secrecy and thus did ...
CAROLINE DERRY
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