Browsing Research Articles (Philosophy) by Title
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Narrating the self : Freud, Dennett and complexity theory
(South African Journal of Philosophy, 2004)Adopting a materialist approach to the mind has far reaching implications for many presuppositions regarding the properties of the brain, including those that have traditionally been consigned to “the mental” aspect of ... -
A note on mental content in the Causal Theory
(Stellenbosch University, Department of General Linguistics, 2013)Kripke's causal theory requires that downstream users of a name must have the intention to use the name in the same way that upstream users did. Kripke, however, has demonstrated no need for this requirement qua independent ... -
A note on name individuation and identifying descriptions
(Stellenbosch University, Department of Linguistics, 2014)In ‘Public Proper names and Idiolectical Identifying Descriptions’ (2009) Glezakos puts forward a theory concerning the role of identifying descriptions in the theory of names. Her main claim is that such identifying ... -
Notion of African as a strategic ideological epistemic position in African philosophy
(Unisa Press, 2016)ENGLISH ABSTRACT: This article argues that the racial essentialism implicit in the geographic criteria of the meaning of "African" in African philosophy (as black, ethnic and sub-Saharan) limits the development of African ... -
On the paradox of the political/transcendence and Eschatology : transimmanence and the promise of love in Jean-Luc Nancy
(MDPI, 2017)ENGLISH ABSTRACT: The debate on the possibility of re-thinking transcendence at the so-called end or closure of the metaphysical tradition and its relation to the political is situated at the heart of contemporary continental ... -
Oor die vraag na identiteit in ʼn postapartheidwêreld : ko-skepping as alternatief vir onto-rasselogie
(Suid-Afrikaanse Akademie vir Wetenskap en Kuns, 2018)ENGLISH ABSTRACT: How does one understand who one is in a post-apartheid world? Put differently: what comes after the logic of apartheid? In this article I take up the question by arguing for a notion of identity as action ... -
An opinion survey of ethical concerns in environmental decision-making in Cape Town and Surrounds: the base line of 2002
(Stellenbosch University, 2004-10)ENGLISH ABSTRACT: The main objectives of this study were to determine the levels of confidence in the process of environmental decision-making in Cape Town and surrounds; to determine the possible causes of these concerns; ... -
Orientation and ambiguity - on a decisive hermeneutical dimension in Dirkie Smit's theological thinking
(Stellenbosch University, 2013)This essay explores Dirkie Smit’s theological thinking from a hermeneutical perspective. Smit’s linking up with Karl Barth’s view on confessing, as can be seen in the Accompanying Letter of the Belhar Confession, is taken ... -
Peculiarities in mind ; or, on the absence of Darwin
(Philosophical Society of Southern Africa, 2011)A key failing in contemporary philosophy of mind is the lack of attention paid to evolutionary theory in its research projects. Notably, where evolution is incorporated into the study of mind, the work being done is often ... -
Phronesis and an ethics of responsibility
(Health & Medical Publishing Group, 2013-06-24)ENGLISH ABSTRACT: This article concerns the development of a framework for the formation of an adequate approach to moral reasoning in bioethics. Bioethics has largely been dominated by the influence of two approaches to ... -
Politico-philosophical perspectives on reconciliation
(Pieter de Waal Neethling Trust, 2010)ENGLISH ABSTRACT: The article is an analysis of the philosophical meaning and political prospects of the idea of reconciliation between all South Africans. The author is sceptical about this prospect. While he regards ... -
Price, virtues, principles: how to discern what inspires best practices in water management? a case study about small farmers in the Yucatan Peninsula of Mexico
(MDPI, 2016)ENGLISH ABSTRACT: Improving water practices among small farmers in a water scarce area like the Yucatan Peninsula in Mexico is a complex task. Despite government attempts to enforce regulations and question the possibility ... -
Promoting responsible research conduct in a developing world academic context
(Health & Medical Publishing Group, 2013-06-21)ENGLISH ABSTRACT: As reports of research misconduct seem to increase, research integrity and the promotion of responsible research conduct are important for academic institutions. This paper considers what research integrity ... -
Public health and social justice : forging the links
(Health & Medical Publishing Group, 2015-11)The purpose of this article is to explore the concept and scope of public health and to argue that particularly in low income contexts, where social injustice and poverty often impact significantly on the overall health ... -
Public health, beneficence and cosmopolitan justice
(Health & Medical Publishing Group, 2015-11-26)This article proposes that, in line with moral-cosmopolitan theorists, affluent nations have an obligation, founded in justice and not merely altruism or beneficence, to share the responsibility of the burden of public ... -
Religion : a new Struggle for African Identity
(Unisa Press, 2016)ENGLISH ABSTRACT: Looking at most African countries, one realises that the social imaginaries which make us who we are, continue to be an issue in every society. It is even more rampant when we think of the role religion ... -
A review of Aristotle’s claim regarding Pythagoreans fundamental Beliefs: all is number?
(Universidad do Vale de Rio dos Sinos, 2016)ENGLISH ABSTRACT: The question-statement, “All is number?”, the title of Zhmud’s famous 1989 article in Phronesis, opens a challenge to the extremely important Aristotelian testimony that “all is number” was the fundamental ... -
Review of the second annual Ethics SA conference : an investigation of the state of ethics in South Africa
(SUNMeDIA, 2012)This review article documents the insights presented by the panel of speakers at the second annual Ethics SA conference, hosted in May 2012. The content pertains to the state of ethics in South Africa, with specific focus ... -
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 ...
