Health and Disease: Between Naturalism and Normativism

The concept of health: beyond normativism and naturalism.

Philosophical discussions of health and disease have traditionally been dominated by a debate between normativists, who hold that health is an inescapably value-laded concept and naturalists, such as Christopher Boorse, who believe that it is possible to derive a purely descriptive or theoretical definition of health based upon biological function. In this paper I defend a distinctive view whic...

the relationship between topic familiarity and guessing lexical meaning and retention among iranian efl learners

the skill of reading in english as a foreign language is an important and challenging one which is affected both by linguistic and extra linguistic factors. since vocabularies are part and parcel of every reading comprehension text, knowing enough vocabulary always facilitates this process. however, guessing strategy as one of the most important strategies has consistently ignored by language l...

Comparison between Iranian health scientific outputs and disease burden

Background and aim: One of the most important infrastructures for the development and progress of countries is scientific outputs and targeted research to meet the needs of society and reduce the disease burden. The aim of this study was to determine the relationship between the number of scientific outputs indexed in PubMed, related to ten diseases with the highest mortality rate in Iran and t...

heidegger.ontological attitude and naturalism

cohesion and cohesive devices in a contrastive analysis between ge and esp texts

the present study was an attempt to conduct a contrastive analysis between general english (ge) and english for specific purposes (esp) texts in terms of cohesion and cohesive devices. to this end, thirty texts from different esp and ge textbooks were randomly selected. then they were analyzed manually to find the frequency of cohesive devices. cohesive devices include reference, substitution, ...