Although explanation is widely regarded as an important concept in the study of rational inquiry, it remains largely unexplored outside the philosophy of science. This, I believe, is not due to oversight as much as to institutional resistance. In analytic philosophy it is basic that epistemic rationality is a function of justification and that justification is a function of argument. Explanatio...

The immense economic inequality we observe in the world today didn’t happen overnight, or even in the past century. It is the path dependent outcome of a multitude of historical processes, one of the most important of which has been European colonialism. Retracing our steps 500 years, or back to the verge of this colonial project, we see little inequality and small differences between poor and ...

Exposing day 5 bovine morulae to reactive oxygen species induces a delayed degeneration of some blastocysts on day 8 post-insemination (pi) but without affecting the blastocyst rates. The aim of this study was to characterize the resisting and the degenerating population of blastocysts. The kinetics of degeneration of the embryos exposed to the two pro-oxidant agents: 2,2'-azobis (2-amidinoprop...

It is known that the seismic response of a structural system is highly influenced, in addition to the earthquake input, by the dynamic characteristics of the system itself. This paper presents an approach for the identification of the characteristics of the structural system resisting to horizontal loads which enables to satisfy given seismic performance objectives. This is achieved by consider...

Lingering legacies of colonialism continue to disrupt the postcolonial condition Southern spaces including their ontologies, knowledges and creativities. The interdependence modernity coloniality further constructs a complex array overlapping systems exclusion marginalisation. In particular, parameters power, knowledge being influence how artistic expressions creativities are unequally apprecia...

Many researchers agree that information and communications technologies are deeply implicated in the process of globalization. There is much less agreement, however, on what globalization means in particular situations and contexts. This paper places the development of a specific information system in a Third World country within the context of neo-colonialism and post-colonialism. It shows how...

Does wealth persist over time despite historical shocks like colonisation? One strand of literature suggests no: Acemoglu et al. argue that colonisation brought bad institutions to most of sub-Saharan Africa that caused a ‘reversal of fortune’. Another strand of literature suggests the opposite: despite several centuries of colonialism in Latin America, Valencia and Caicedo argue, ‘persistence ...