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Black hole philosophy

truths about whatever is thought to exist. This requirement of keeping up with the science of the day goes even beyond metaphysics and encompasses all philosophy. As requested long ago by Hans Reichenbach ... (1951), true philosophy should be scientific philosophy, i.e. philosophy based on the best current science.1 Of all special sciences, it is undoubtedly modern physics which has had the strongest impact

Food, Art and Philosophy

: [email protected] University of Georgia, Department of Philosophy, USA. E-mail: [email protected] philosophy of food is an emerging and distinctive area of philosophical inquiry, and much of the ... Ciencia, Spain. E-mail: . 2 University of Georgia, Department of Philosophy, USA. E-mail: . The philosophy of food is an emerging and distinctive area of philosophical inquiry, and much of

Walking the Tightrope: The President's Council, P.W. Botha and the Rhetoric of Reform

investigate and make recommendations regarding reform in the socio-economic and political spheres, which were undermining apartheid ideology of racial segregation. Comprising five committees with delegates ... was now recognised as racial discrimination. This Act was a product of 'the ideological-political philosophy of the Government' during the early years of apartheid.66 As such, the Planning Committee

'For our self-sufficiency and autonomy': International Worker Solidarity and the Global Networks of FOSATU in the Democratic Struggle in South Africa

apartheid, the focus tends to emphasise what has been called political or social movement unionism. However, one labour centre, the Federation of South African Trade Unions (FOSATU), pursuing a workerist ... , created and extended tentacles of democracy during apartheid, outside the ambit and influence of political parties and the nationalist movement. FOSATU also created global networks and outreach in search of

Rationalising Framing Effects: At Least One Task for Empirically Informed Philosophy

Sarah A. Fisher*  *University of Reading, School of Humanities, Department of Philosophy SUMMARY Human judgements are affected by the words in which information is presented -or ... . Crucially, providing that foundation will, in turn, require engagement with a conceptual distinction heavily discussed in the philosophy of language, concerning the difference between semantics and pragmatics

Rationalising Framing Effects: At Least One Task for Empirically Informed Philosophy

Sarah A. Fisher*  *University of Reading, School of Humanities, Department of Philosophy SUMMARY Human judgements are affected by the words in which information is presented -or ... . Crucially, providing that foundation will, in turn, require engagement with a conceptual distinction heavily discussed in the philosophy of language, concerning the difference between semantics and pragmatics

Rationalising Framing Effects: At Least One Task for Empirically Informed Philosophy

Sarah A. Fisher*  *University of Reading, School of Humanities, Department of Philosophy SUMMARY Human judgements are affected by the words in which information is presented -or ... . Crucially, providing that foundation will, in turn, require engagement with a conceptual distinction heavily discussed in the philosophy of language, concerning the difference between semantics and pragmatics

Rationalising Framing Effects: At Least One Task for Empirically Informed Philosophy

Sarah A. Fisher*  *University of Reading, School of Humanities, Department of Philosophy SUMMARY Human judgements are affected by the words in which information is presented -or ... . Crucially, providing that foundation will, in turn, require engagement with a conceptual distinction heavily discussed in the philosophy of language, concerning the difference between semantics and pragmatics

Rationalising Framing Effects: At Least One Task for Empirically Informed Philosophy

Sarah A. Fisher*  *University of Reading, School of Humanities, Department of Philosophy SUMMARY Human judgements are affected by the words in which information is presented -or ... . Crucially, providing that foundation will, in turn, require engagement with a conceptual distinction heavily discussed in the philosophy of language, concerning the difference between semantics and pragmatics

Rationalising Framing Effects: At Least One Task for Empirically Informed Philosophy

Sarah A. Fisher*  *University of Reading, School of Humanities, Department of Philosophy SUMMARY Human judgements are affected by the words in which information is presented -or ... . Crucially, providing that foundation will, in turn, require engagement with a conceptual distinction heavily discussed in the philosophy of language, concerning the difference between semantics and pragmatics

The Tractatus to the Rescue of Principia Mathematica: Ramsey and the Logicist Foundations of Mathematics

Ramsey must be tautological.Palavras-chave : Russell; Wittgenstein; logicism; formalism; philosophy of mathematics. ... , The Mathematical Analysis of Logic, George Bell and Sons, Londres. [ Links ] Bradley, R., 1987, “Tractatus 2.022-2.023”, Canadian Journal of Philosophy, vol. 17, no. 2, pp. 349-359. [ Links

An organisational and political history

, 1992, pp 1-14; G Sartori, "The Sociology of Parties A Critical Review", Committee on Political Sociology of the International Sociological Association, Party Systems, Party Organizations, and the ... Memorial Trust The Political Economy of Social Change in South Africa University of the Western Cape, 1-2 April 1997; S Trapido, "Political Institutions and Afrikaner Social Structures in the Republic of

Ideological movements that inspire the possibility of a radically different future

radical in their political outlook. He traces the rise and decline of the young student left from the end of Belgian colonialism in the 1950s until Joseph Mobutu's increased authoritarian rule at the ... authoritarian rule at the beginning of the 1970s. This period in Congolese history was defined by significant political turmoil and great youthful energy. While university students formed a small social group in

Hunger and power: Politics, food (in)security and the development of small grains in Zimbabwe, 2000-2010

millet - offered a panacea to looming starvation and civil unrest. Yet, as we argue in this article, its access became rooted increasingly within political contestations between the ruling ZANU PF ... citizens. Using the story of small grains -sorghum and millet - between 2000 and 2010, we trace how food (in)security took a political form, stirring a pot of sometimes violent clashes between political and

The Development of Christian Care Aid in Zimbabwe: The Case of Matabeleland Region, 1967-c.1990

The organisation, Christian Care, was formed during Zimbabwe's liberation war in 1967 to disburse emergency aid to victims of the war and political repression. From 1967 to about 1990, it provided ... Christian Care, I argue, provided assistance to victims of political repression and marginalisation in the context of the liberation war and post-war Gukurahundi2massacres as well as victims of natural

John Vorster and the Extension of University Education Act, 1959

leadership position in the National Party was strengthened. The debates provided an early stepping-stone in his political career, that launched him on his way to becoming Minister of Justice, prime minister ... sabotage in protest against the Smuts government's war policy, but was nevertheless arrested and interned at Koffiefontein for fourteen months.5 Vorster's political opponents later alleged that his

Marshalling a Splintered Society: Censorship, Publicity and Propaganda in South Africa During the Second World War

government of General J.C. Smuts lacked broad-based support and contested opposition which was shaped by Nazi influences. Latent South African socio-political friction surfaced, and anti-war violence ensued ... policy. The article focuses on subversive Nazi efforts within South Africa before and during the war, and on the impact of these on internal political divisions. These are significant because they formed

'Liberal crusader': Zach de Beer, apartheid and liberalism 1950-1990

Zach de Beer's political career began in 1950 when as a student leader and a member of the Civil Rights League he addressed a public meeting in the Cape Town City Hall to protest the banning of the ... parliamentary seat in the 1961 general election and led to years in the political wilderness. Outside of parliament, as a prominent figure in the financial world, he continued to encourage constitutional and

"Fascist or opportunist?": The political career of Oswald Pirow, 1915-1943

Oswald Pirow's established place in South African historiography is that of a confirmed fascist, but in reality he was an opportunist. Raw ambition was the underlying motive for every political ... action he took and he had a ruthless ability to adjust his sails to prevailing political winds. He hitched his ambitions to the political momentum of influential persons such as Tielman Roos and J.B.M

Creation and Preservation of Business History: The Selection Trust and Anglo-American Corporation Archives in Zambia's Copperbelt

administrative efficiency, these documents eventually became publicly available because of Zambia's political independence and the nationalisation of the mining industry in the 1960s. In the early 1970s, the ... 2000 the identity of mining archives reverted to private entities. This article provides new and significant insights into the power and role of regional and local political-economic shifts in