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Environment and Philosophy: The Aesthetics and the Natural Environment
(Scientific Research, 2018-06)
In this study, after initially identifying the field of Aesthetics and the concept
of Aesthetically Remarkable (Beautiful), we are going to analyze the aesthetic
categories, which constitute a basic element of Aesthetics, ...
Philosophy of Education: A Tool for National Development?
(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 ...
Users’ Perception of University Library Resources and Services in South East Zone of Nigeria
(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 ...
Africa, Poverty and Forces of Change: A Holistic Approach to Perceiving and Addressing Poverty in Africa
(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 ...
Aliens, Humans, Animals, & Luck: Animal Treatment & Human Morality
(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, ...
Why the Bible Cannot and Should Not Be Taken Literally
(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 ...
Are Background Feelings Intentional Feelings?
(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: ...
Research on Chewing Gum: Questions of Ethics
(Scientific Research, 2017-08)
Guidelines for clinical research and ethics committees are significant contributions
to decision made in science and law. But since research methods need
to follow the changes and the development of science, guidelines ...
Study on Implicit Ideological and Political Education Theory and Reform in Higher Vocational Colleges
(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 ...
Additive Property and the Physical Reducibility of the Mind
(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 ...