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On Whether It Is and What It Is

This dialogue, taking place between Prof. Whether and Prof. What, focuses on the nature of the relationship between ontology, conceived as the branch of philosophy concerned with the question of what ... the complementary part of philosophy that seeks to explain, of those entities, what they are. Most philosophers claim that it is not possible to address the first question without at the same time

Cost effectiveness of malaria vector control activities in Sudan

are maintenance of adequate stable level of funding, un-adequate number of well trained health workers, unstable political and administrative conditions and weak infrastructure. These challenges are ... financial support from state governments that adequately covers all operational activities, (2) severe lack of well-trained health workers, (3) unstable political conditions that accordingly results in

Three Kinds of Arguments for Panpsychism

known from the history of philosophy mainly due to the fact that the former is often combined with so-called Russellian monism. According to Russellian monism, the intrinsic properties of physical things ... Terminological Preliminaries Within the last 100 years, the analytic philosophy of mind has been dominated by materialism, a view that one can fully account for mental phenomena in purely physical terms, such as

Replies to the Critics of Knowing and Checking: an Epistemological Investigation

Investigation (Routledge 2019), hereinafter abbreviated as KC. These papers resulted from a workshop organized by the department of philosophy of the University of Maribor. I am very thankful to the organizers of ... . Admittedly, there is some plausibility to claiming that we can check by using Newtonian physics. However, this is a general problem within the philosophy of science and not a problem for checking in particular

Tricky Truths: How Should Alethic Pluralism Accommodate Racial Truths?

Department of Philosophy, Stellenbosch University , Stellenbosch , South Africa 2 Department of Philosophy, Macquarie University , North Ryde , Australia Some alethic pluralists maintain that there are two ... accommodate such a notion. Philosophy of truth; Determination Pluralism; Douglas Edwards; Crispin Wright; Michael Lynch; Metaphysics of race 1 Introduction The important question of whether we should

Justified Evidence Resistance

to Mylan Engel, Thomas Grundmann, Paul Silva Jr, Mona Simion, Tom Sorell, and Luis Rosa. I have benefitted from being a Senior Research Associate at the African Centre for Epistemology and Philosophy ... an intellectual virtue? Royal Institute of Philosophy Supplement , 84 , 23 - 45 . Bernecker , S. ( 2021 ). An epistemic defense of news abstinence . In S. Bernecker, A. Flowerree , & T. Grundmann (Eds

Virtue, Self-Narratives, and the Causes of Action

Journal of Philosophy , 13 ( 1 ), 11 - 20 . Ulatowski , J. , & Lumsden , D. ( 2023 ). Do political convictions infect every fibre of our being? Social Epistemology , 1 - 17 . https://doi.org/10.1080 ... of moral value are caused by virtues cultivated by a person over time. This is a notion that not only has relevance to popular thinking about virtues but also, within academic philosophy, has currency

Utilization of insecticide-treated nets and associated factors among childbearing women in Northern Nigeria

head of household, household wealth, and household size. The variables selected at the community level were the type of place of residence, geo-political zone of residence, the proportion of children ... of sleeping rooms, number of treated bed nets, geo-political zone of residence, and proportion of under-five children sleeping under bed nets are important associated factors of the utilization of

Progress towards malaria elimination in the Greater Mekong Subregion: perspectives from the World Health Organization

]. This high-level political support has been crucial in supporting the national and regional elimination programme. To identify priorities and funding requirements, each country creates an annual work ... investment. Activities are prioritized based on their expected impact on malaria elimination, feasibility, capacity, potential for funding, political support, and urgency. For example, early prioritization

Value Pluralism versus Value Monism

history of philosophy, is defended only by a few contemporary authors (Dworkin, 2012; Hurka, 1996; Klocksiem, 2011; Moen, 2016; Regan, 1997) ,1 is based on the opposing metaphysical thesis: namely, that ... among deliberators that such conflicts allow for reasoned choices. In fact, the very notion of political deliberation is underpinned by the presupposition of comparability. For if choices between freedom

A framework for stakeholder engagement in the adoption of new anti-malarial treatments in Africa: a case study of Nigeria

artemisinin-based combination therapy (ACT) in Nigeria was swift due to political will, funding and support from global developmental partners. However, the implementation of ACT was met with resistance from ... current National Malaria Strategic Plan (NMSP 2021–25) has adopted a stratification approach to tailor actions in relation to peculiar characteristics of malaria within the various geo-political zones of

Malaria elimination and the need for intensive inter-country cooperation. a critical evaluation of regional technical co-operation in Southern Africa

collaboration and political will amongst countries forming regional elimination blocks which could support countries nearing elimination. A key focus of elimination strategies would be cross border transmission ... is inadequate coordination of cross-border joint planning and pooling of resources which would optimize coverage. Thus, there is a need for advocacy at the highest political level to strengthen the

El Niño and other climatic drivers of epidemic malaria in Ethiopia: new tools for national health adaptation plans

. An El Niño event is likely in the coming years. Warming temperatures, political instability in some regions, and declining investments from international donors, implies an increasing risk of climate ... ]. Combined with political strife, cyclical climate drivers, such as the El Niño Southern Oscillation (ENSO), and global warming, there is a real risk that malaria epidemics will re-emerge on the continent if

Non-Factualist Interpretation of the Skeptical Solution and the Self-Refutation Argument

and logic . Victor Gollancz Ltd. Barber , A. ( 1998 ). The pleonasticity of talk about concepts . Philosophical Studies: An International Journal for Philosophy in the Analytic Tradition , 89 ( 1 ), 53 ... . ( 2017 ). Semantic non-factualism in Kripke's Wittgenstein . Journal for the History of Analytical Philosophy , 5 ( 9 ), 1 - 13 . Byrne , A. ( 1996 ). Misinterpreting Kripke's Wittgenstein. Philosophy and

Slurs and Expressive Commitments

and Lepore Noûs 47(1), 25–48, 2013a, Analytic Philosophy 54(3), 350–363, 2013b; Bolinger Nous, 51(3), 439–462, 2017), giving them a firmer conceptual basis. It supports a distinction between derogation ... Nunberg's analysis (and incorporates elements of other pragmatic accounts, cf. Anderson and Lepore Nouˆs 47(1), 25-48, 2013a, Analytic Philosophy 54(3), 350-363, b; Bolinger Nous, 51(3), 439-462, 2017

Evaluation of the malaria elimination programme in Muara Enim Regency: a qualitative study from Indonesia

, infrastructure development, collaborations, and consistent financial support, with active participation from government officials to overcome technological, financial, and political challenges [19]. In the Muara ... with artificial intelligence tools: a review . Front Microbiol . 2022 ; 13 : 1006659 . 28. George M. The fragmentation and weakening of institutions of primary healthcare . Econ Political Weekly . 2020

Two Concepts of Truthmaking: a Compatibilist Solution to the Controversy Between Substantive and Deflationary Approach

neutral with regard to jurisdictional claims in published maps and institutional affiliations. Armstrong , D. M. ( 1997 ). A world of states of affairs . In Cambridge studies in philosophy. Cambridge ... . Philosophy and Phenomenological Research , 101 ( 3 ), 567 - 590 . https://doi.org/10.1111/phpr.12605 Baron , S. , Chua , R. M. , Miller , K. , & Norton , J. ( 2022 ). Much ado about aboutness . Inquiry , 65

Partially Autonomous Belief

read at every truck stop. Tom is interested in political issues, and he tries to think the arguments from each party through. The contents of the arguments by themselves are not enough to convince him ... Empirical Knowledge . Midwest Studies in Philosophy , 5 ( 1 ), 53 - 73 . Carter , A. J. ( 2022 ). Autonomous Knowledge . Oxford University Press. Clark , A. , & Chalmers , D. J. ( 1998 ). The extended mind

Stakeholder perspectives on a door-to-door intervention to increase community engagement for malaria elimination in Zanzibar

practice, lack of initiative from the programme level to involve communities, and political instability during the election period. All Community Health Volunteers (CHVs) recommended this approach for ... , which reduces our sense of ownership and inhibits sustainability and proper follow up of these interventions at the community level”. Community members during the FGDs also described social, political

Consciousness and Intentionality in Franz Brentano

conscious insofar as it is aware of itself as an object. However, this reading fails to take into account the Brentanian concept of object, which is ultimately derived from ancient and medieval philosophy, as ... intentionality”. The current debate about the relationship between intentionality and consciousness1 can be viewed as largely the consequence of the focus placed in analytic philosophy on the so-called hard