In his recent book 'Moral Skepticisms' Walter Sinnott-Armstrong argues in great detail for contrastivism with respect to justified moral belief and moral knowledge. In this paper I raise three questions concerning this view. First, how would Sinnott-Armstrong account for constraints on admissible contrast classes? Second, how would he deal with notorious problems concerning relevant reference c...

Literature on moral education has contributed surprisingly little to our understanding of issues of race and education. The creation of inter-racial communities in schools is a particularly vital antiracist educational goal, one for which public support in the United States has weakened since the 1970s. As contexts for antiracist moral education, such communities should involve racially plural ...

Father Cammack, S.J., might easily have found a more popular title for his book which deals from an unfamiliar angle with some very familiar problems of mental deficiency. It is an analysis, by a skilled moral theologian, of the nature of " moral deficiencya concept which is even more puzzling to the expert than to the amateur in the psychology of crime, who may see nothing particularly odd in ...

In “Milk, Honey, and the Good Life on Moral Twin Earth”, David Copp explores some ways in which a defender of synthetic moral naturalism might attempt to get around our Moral Twin Earth argument.1 Copp nicely brings out the force of our argument, not only through his exposition of it, but through his attempt to defeat it, since his efforts, we think, only help to make manifest the deep difficul...

death disease is condition of a person who will die of a disease. jurisprudents have been disagreed regarding influence of this condition on his certainties. some of the jurisprudents have regarded certainties as testament, but some of other jurisprudents have not believed in this limitations and considered person's freedom at the time of his/her sickness like his/her freedom at the time o...

wittgenstein is one of the most prominent philosophers in the twentieth century; his views in both periods of his thinking have influenced many issues, including religion. his view on religion is expressed in his tractatus logico-philosophicus. in terms of the picture theory of meaning and the distinction between the meaningless and meaningful propositions, he has made an attempt to show that t...

Scholars of Islam contribute a lot to the growth and development their society, which those from Nigeria are not left out. Prominent among them in Yorubaland, was Shaykh cAbdus-Sal?m Y?suf Alikinl? whose works were Arabic Language. His views on political mobilization as form patriotism expressed one his manuscripts, Mustaqbal Ilorin Al-Z?hir, is focus this study. submissions examined using text...

As advertised in its subtitle, Terence Cuneo’s rich new book, The Normative Web, puts forth an argument for moral realism. Moral realism, Cuneo argues, is on a par with epistemic realism—roughly, the view that there are genuine epistemic facts, facts such as that it is reasonable to believe that astrology is false. These two realist doctrines stand or fall together. But epistemic realism is tru...