I examine the views of Thomas Reid with respect to a certain version problem induction: Why are inductions using natural kinds successful, and what justifies them? argue that while both holds kind conventionalist view about kinds, this conventionalism has realistic component which allows him answer questions.

In this paper, I address a range of arguments put forward by Kwame Gyekye (1992) and Bernard Matolino (2014) denying Menkiti’s twin propositions that persons differ ontologically from human beings attitudes, behaviours practices constitute in social reality. They argue his account “maximal” persons, rooted African traditional thought-worlds, conflates issues ultimately involve him category mist...

The method of ethical analysis is reviewed and applied to questions relating to the unintended consequences, ownership, and metaphysical significance of genetically modified animals. The question of how genetics and recombinant DNA discoveries have an impact on human understanding of the moral community and the limits of acceptable action are emphasized. The potential for genetically modified a...

Contrasting with various "virtual communities", Second Life is a genuine "virtual society" with the potential to provide a universal framework of interoperability between unlimited masses of individual as well as collective actors. By mirroring (end even amplifying) the acentrism and individualism of contemporary society, it is characterized by precarious member motivation, conservative convent...

Contrasting with various "virtual communities", Second Life is a genuine "virtual society" with the potential to provide a universal framework of interoperability between unlimited masses of individual as well as collective actors. By mirroring (end even amplifying) the acentrism and individualism of contemporary society, it is characterized by precarious member motivation, conservative convent...

One important feature of Poincaré’s conventionalism of geometry is linked to the relation between the abstract notion of space geometry and the representations of the free mobility of our bodies where the first is an idealization of the second. Furthermore, since Poincaré thinks that the only adequate candidates for physical geometry – the geometries of constant curvature – are equivalent from ...