Browsing Research Articles (Philosophy) by Title
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Some lessons from Kripke’s a puzzle about belief
(Stellenbosch University, Department of General Linguistics, 2011)ENGLISH ABSTRACT: The literature on Kripke’s A Puzzle About Belief has delivered convincing answers to the problem raised by Kripke. This is so both for referentialists and descriptivists. In this article I consider what ... -
Speaker's reference, semantic reference and public reference
(Department of General Linguistics, Stellenbosch University, 2018)ENGLISH ABSTRACT: Kripke (1977) views Donnellan’s (1966) misdescription cases as cases where semantic reference and speaker’s reference come apart. Such cases, however, are also cases where semantic reference conflicts ... -
Speaking of sustainable development and values... a response to Alistair Chadwick’s viewpoint responding to destructive interpersonal interactions : a way forward for school-based environmental educators
(Rhodes University : Environmental Education Department, 2004-12)It may be considered unfair to respond to a paper from the point of view of another discipline, especially if central issues or assumptions in that article are discussed critically. In this paper, comments are made ... -
Spreke en saamleef : oor korrektheid en waarheid in Suid-Afrika se kultuurpolitieke diskoers
(Suid-Afrikaanse Akademie vir Wetenskap en Kuns, 2014-12)Johan Degenaar begin sy opstel oor “Die paradigma van volksnasionalisme” in sy bundel Moraliteit en Politiek (Degenaar 1976) met ’n verhaal oor 'n insident wat hy die vorige jaar meegemaak het. Nodeloos om daarmee rekening ... -
Sustainable development, sustainable livelihoods and land reform in South Africa : a conceptual and ethical inquiry
(Carfax PublishingRoutledge, 2004)In this article various necessary conceptual linkages as well as contingent discontinuities between the concepts of land reform, sustainable livelihoods and sustainable development are studied. Exploring the complex ... -
They are all lies. Even Mother Theresa did it for herself
(Medknow Publications, 2008-11)In this paper we explore the question of what are we trying to achieve in teaching business ethics at undergraduate university level. The dominant normative model of business ethics suggests that the aim of business ethics ... -
They can be choosers : Aid, Levinas and unconditional cash transfers
(Medknow Publications, 2019)In this paper I seek to critically examine UCT’s and CCT’s and consider how a Levinasian ethics might offer normative guidelines to evaluate such aid programmes. Such an analysis will serve to both critique and supplement ... -
Towards defending a semantic theory of expression in art : revisiting Goodman
(The Philosophical Society of Southern Africa, 2012-09)Nelson Goodman’s attempt to analyse the expressiveness of artworks in semantic terms has been widely criticised. In this paper I try to show how the use of an adapted version of his concept of exemplification, as proposed ... -
Vriendskap teenoor vyandskap in taalbeplanning vir die Universiteit Stellenbosch : die bydrae van Leon de Stadler
(University of Stellenbosch, Department of General Linguistics, 2017)No abstract available. -
When bodies speak differently : putting Judith Butler in conversation with Mahatma Gandhi on nonviolent resistance
(MDPI, 2021)ENGLISH ABSTRACT: This article puts political philosopher Judith Butler in conversation with Gandhi, on the topic of nonviolent resistance. More particularly, we compare them on a systematic philosophical level. Although ... -
"When everything starts to flow" : Nkrumah and Irigaray in search of emancipatory ontologies
(South African Society for Greek Philosophy and the Humanities, 2015)A more explicit, comprehensive and sustained dialogue between the African philosophical and western feminist traditions would yield insights at once rich and useful to both traditions, and beyond. Here, I place the work ... -
Why Peirce matters : the symbol in Deacon’s symbolic species
(Elsevier Ltd, 2007)In ‘‘Why brains matter: an integrational perspective on The Symbolic Species’’ Cowley (2002) [Language Sciences 24, 73–95] suggests that Deacon pictures brains as being able to process words qua tokens, which he identifies ... -
Why the world is still unequal : on the apparatuses of justification and interpassivity
(SUNMeDIA, 2014-11)Inequality offends our moral sensibilities, yet there is no urgency to address it. This article explains the lack of an adequate response to inequality by outlining two apparatuses conspiring to perpetuate inequality – ... -
Zimitri Erasmus (2017) race otherwise : forging a new humanism for South Africa
(Wits University Press, 2020)Race Otherwise is a contemporary exploration of race and identity in South Africa that attempts to provide us with a new form of humanism that may help us overcome or at least challenge and disrupt racialisation. This book ...
