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Eustachius a S. Paulo
A seventeenth-century French theologian and philosopher. One of the most important intellectuals and churchmen of his time. A leading figure in the...
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Ethics Education in Engineering and Technological Institutes in India: Challenges and Looking Forward
In India, many engineering and technological institutes have incorporated ethics into their curriculum. Ethics or professional ethics is added as an...
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Images in Health-related Communications from Sri Lanka: Is there a Racial Bias?
Racial bias and language discrimination are recognized in the health sector in countries such as Sri Lanka. This may extend to images used in health...
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One Method for All Inquiry
I offer a view of scientific method that removes some of the barriers that separate science from other forms of knowledge. I explore, for example,...
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Numerical instability and dynamical systems
In philosophical studies regarding mathematical models of dynamical systems, instability due to sensitive dependence on initial conditions, on the...
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Colonial Discourse and the Suffering of Indian American Children A Francophone Postcolonial Analysis
Euro-American misrepresentations of the non-West in general, and in particular on Hinduism and ancient India, run deep and have far greater colonial...
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The Use of Logic for Creating Fact Patterns in Roman Legal Writings – An Alternative Perspective on Iul. D. 35,2,87
We look at the question how logic or mathematical concepts could have influenced the way Roman legal writers developed the fact patterns which they...
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Quantum ontology without speculation
Existing proposals concerning the ontology of quantum mechanics (QM) either involve speculation that goes beyond the scientific evidence or abandon...
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Introduction: Women in the History of Analytic Philosophy
Verhaegh, SanderThe present volume collects papers on ten female thinkers who directly or indirectly contributed to the development of analytic...
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Chortasmenos, Ioannis
Ioannis Chortasmenos (ca. 1370–1431) was a scholar, mathematician, astronomer, and bibliophile; under the name Ignatios he became Metropolitan of...
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Henry Cavendish and the Density of the Earth
Contrary to the views expressed in many introductory physics textbooks, Henry Cavendish did not measure G, the gravitational constant contained in...
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The Nan**g Massacre in Japanese Historiography and Education
The Nan**g Massacre of 1937 is a controversial fixture in contemporary Japan, sha** debates raging from historiography to education reform to...
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Spinoza on Money and Social Desire
Spinoza’s philosophy contains a theory of money very different from that in the economics textbooks, which treat money as an instrument of voluntary...
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“Le meilleur livre qui ait jamais été fait en cette matière”: Eustachius a Sancto Paulo and the Teaching of Philosophy in the Seventeenth Century
Following the praise by René Descartes of Eustachius a Sancto Paulo’s Summa Philosophiae Quadripartita as “the best book ever made on this subject,”...
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Business Ethics A Philosophical Introduction
This textbook not only provides the student with a solid foundation in ethics, but introduces students to the most important themes relevant to...
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Case analysis in ethics instruction: bootlegging theory in a topical structure
Robert Veatch was a notable and prolific author in a variety of areas in philosophy, health care practice, and policy. However, it is evident by the...
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A dialogue on the ethics of science: Henri Poincaré and Pope Francis
To teach the ethics of science to science majors, I follow several teachers in the literature who recommend “persona” writing, or the student...
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Robert Nisbet: Art, History, and the Anti-Rationalism of Sociological Methodology
The American sociologist Robert Nisbet was most famous for his critique of the alliance between modern statism and individualism and his defense of...
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Professional Ethics for Research and Development Activities
This book provides a thorough introduction to research ethics and ethically responsible research practice in a research organization. It is relevant...