Johne's disease is chronic inflammation of the intestine caused by Mycobacterium avium subspecies paratuberculosis. Infection and disease are mainly in domestic livestock but can affect many species including primates. Johne's is a new disease which emerged at the turn of the 19th and 20th centuries and principally involved Europe and North America. It has since spread to former low incidence r...

In what follows, I strive to present the elements of a philosophical doctrine, which can be defined as dialectical contextualism. I proceed first to define the elements of this doctrine: dualities and polar contraries, the principle of dialectical indifference and the one-sidedness bias. I emphasize then the special importance of this doctrine in one specific field of meta-philosophy: the metho...

The paper proposes a novel principle of rational self-locating belief that refers to the epistemic agent’s causal context. The principle is motivated and applied to some of the most-discussed problems of self-locating belief including the Doomsday Argument, the Serpent’s Advice scenario, the Presumptuous Philosopher problem, the Sleeping Beauty problem, and the problem of confirmation in the Ev...

Department of Social Sciences, School of Education and Social Sciences, Kabianga University College; P. O. Box 2030, Kericho, Kenya. Department of Kiswahili, Kenyatta University, P. O. Box 43844, Nairobi, Kenya. Corresponding Author: Muindu, Japheth Peter ___________________________________________________________________________ Abstract The study was an attempt to analyze how Wahome Mutahi, i...

Drawing on evolutionary social psychology, Pettijohn and Tesser’s (1999) Environmental Security Hypothesis (ESH) proposes that during threatening times, people seek mates with more mature features. Pettijohn and Jungeberg (2004) found that Playboy Playmates of the Year (PMOYs), who are determined partly by popularity, exhibited more mature features (older, taller, heavier, larger waist-to-hip r...