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    • An Analogical Hermeneutic Approach to Bioethics 

      Islas, David S. Contreras (Scientific Research, 2018-02)
      Bioethics has the hermeneutical task of interpreting scientific knowledge produced by the biological and social sciences in order to propose moral norms and values that are adequate to it. Therefore, it needs to account ...

    • Africa, Poverty and Forces of Change: A Holistic Approach to Perceiving and Addressing Poverty in Africa 

      Eegunlusi, Tayo Raymond Ezekiel (Scientific Research, 2016-11)
      This work argues that Africa’s condition of poverty lingers because the continent fails to view poverty in its holistic sense in her attempts at tackling her economic challenges. Other types of poverty exist, such as ...

    • Justification and False Belief: Gettier’s First Point 

      Perrick, Michael (Scientific Research, 2016-11)
      Appearances notwithstanding, in this paper we do not discuss the Gettier problem. The question at issue is whether one can be justified in believing a false proposition. So, what is at stake is the relation between ...

    • Aliens, Humans, Animals, & Luck: Animal Treatment & Human Morality 

      Firestone, Randall S. (Scientific Research, 2016-08)
      This paper proposes two thought experiments to demonstrate that our current treatment of animals is immoral. The first thought experiment involves aliens coming to earth and doing to us what we do to animals—eating us, ...

    • Users’ Perception of University Library Resources and Services in South East Zone of Nigeria 

      Nkechi, Obiozor-Ekeze Roseline (Scientific Research, 2015-03)
      This study seeks to determine how users of the university libraries perceive the services rendered to them. Department of Mechanical Engineering was chosen as the population of this study. It is heavily populated with ...

    • Organ Transplant Trade: A Moral Examination 

      Koali, Seeiso J. (Scientific Research, 2015-05)
      This article normatively discusses two moral theories namely: Ubuntu and Deontology, with the aim of arguing against the practice of organ transplant trade. It is argued that this practice violates a rule of categorical ...

    • Study on Implicit Ideological and Political Education Theory and Reform in Higher Vocational Colleges 

      Zhang, Yanling (Scientific Research, 2015-05)
      The rapid development of higher vocational education in our country, to higher vocational ideological and political education work has brought serious challenges, researching the effectiveness of the ideological and ...

    • Music Education and Youth Empowerment: A Conceptual Clarification 

      Abiogu, G. C.; Mbaji, I. N.; Adeogun, A. O. (Scientific Research, 2015-02)
      This paper is a conceptual clarification of the nexus between music education and youth empowerment. It is also an exposition of how music education can be utilized for the empowerment of the Nigerian youths with a brief ...

    • Ethnophilosophy and Public Morality in an African Tribe 

      Dike, Uche A. (Scientific Research, 2015-03)
      The paper is a field research work delving into the ethnophilosophy of Ogba religion. Its focal point is on the people’ worldview, as it pertains to life, public morality, value and Adamic sins in Ogba Land Rivers State, ...

    • The Effective Power of Music in Africa 

      Mbaegbu, Celestine Chukwuemeka (Scientific Research, 2015-03)
      This article investigates the role of music in Africa. The study is primarily motivated by the fact that music plays an indispensable role in the being of Africans at work, in politics, in their socioeconomic engagements, ...

    • Revisiting the Catalogue Cards in University Libraries in Nigeria 

      Nkechi, Obiozor-Ekeze Roseline (Scientific Research, 2015-03)
      The card catalogues are neglected in the university libraries in Nigeria because of the introduction of OPAC (Online Public Access Catalogue) which is rarely seen in most of university libraries. After conducting a ...

    • Living Organ Donation, Beneficient Helping, & the Kantian Concept of Partial Self-Murder 

      Articulo, Archimedes C. (Scientific Research, 2014-11)
      This paper deals with the ethical issues concerning living organ donor transplantation in the context of Immanuel Kant’s Ethical Theory. It primarily aims to refute the common perception about Kant’s categorical opposition ...

    • Are Background Feelings Intentional Feelings? 

      Barile, Emilia (Scientific Research, 2014-11)
      I address the problem of the intentionality of “feeling”, considering the study-case of “background feelings” (malaise, tension, etc.) in Damasio (2003, 2010). Background feelings, in fact, are “border case” feelings: ...

    • Do We Have an Inborn Moral Sense? 

      Walker, Marilyn (Scientific Research, 2014-11)
      This paper reviews some recent work in the relationship between caring behavior among humans, an evolutionary adaptation necessary for survival of the species, and our moral sense of right and wrong. The investigation ...

    • Public Sector and Corruption in Nigeria: An Ethical and Institutional Framework of Analysis 

      Casimir, K. C. Ani; Izueke, E. M.; Nzekwe, I. F. (Scientific Research, 2014-08)
      The paper examines the imperatives of good ethical conduct in the conduct of government business in Nigeria. As government business grows in complexity with the adoption of technological innovations in government, ...

    • Why the Bible Cannot and Should Not Be Taken Literally 

      Firestone, Randall S. (Scientific Research, 2014-08)
      This paper argues that there are at least five reasons why the claim that the Bible is to be taken literally defies logic or otherwise makes no sense, and why literalists are in no position to claim that they have the ...

    • Philosophy of Education: A Tool for National Development? 

      Abiogu, Godwin (Scientific Research, 2014-08)
      This paper is an exposition on the theoretical and practical relevance of educational philosophy to national development. It postulated that philosophical ideas have been responsible for shaping the development of societies ...

    • Hand-Washing Global 

      Wu, John Y. (Scientific Research, 2014-08)
      By the practical nature of the case, here is no theoretical argument but pragmatic reasoning for washing hands, with scientific evidence of hand-washing flushing out diseases into a sanitary condition globally. All facts ...

    • Additive Property and the Physical Reducibility of the Mind 

      Hyun, Kwangho (Scientific Research, 2014-05)
      It is controversial whether the mind is physically reducible or not. If the mind is physically reducible, it must share properties with the physical world. To find out how the mind can be characterized, an “additive ...

    • Is the World Objective? 

      Sabbadini, Shantena Augusto (Scientific Research, 2014-05)
      The assumption of an objective world underlying all our experiences is deeply embedded in our everyday thinking and in our language, and has been an unquestioned presupposition of the scientific enterprise for at least ...