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Script and writing were among the most important inventions in human history, and until the invention of printing, the handwritten book was the primary medium of literary and cultural transmission. A …

Science is knowledge gained and justified methodically. It is achieved by research and theory formation. But what is a methodical procedure and what are methodically established justifications? What …

A proof is a successful demonstration that a conclusion necessarily follows by logical reasoning from axioms which are considered evident for the given context and agreed upon by the community. It is …

Distributive justice is one of the most discussed topics in political philosophy. Focusing on the plurality of irreconcilable conceptions of social and political justice, this book presents an array …

World-leading anthropologists and philosophers pursue the perplexing question fundamental to both disciplines: What is it to think of ourselves as human? A common theme is the open-ended and context- …

Essay from the year 2002 in the subject Philosophy – Miscellaneous, grade: 1, 7 (A-), University of Southampton (Department of Philosophy), course: Philosophical Theory, language: English, abstract: …

Essay from the year 2004 in the subject Philosophy – Miscellaneous, grade: distinction+, Murdoch University (Institute for Sustainability and Technology Policy), course: Policy, Technology, …

Scientific Essay from the year 2008 in the subject Philosophy – General Essays, Eras, , language: English, abstract: The article investigates fragments of the two Presocratic philosophers Heraclitus …

Scientific Essay from the year 2009 in the subject Philosophy – Miscellaneous, , language: English, abstract: Recently there are on-going discussions in moral philosophy and neurology: Do we act as …

It appears probable that primitive men endowed with their own qualities every seemingly active object in the world. Experience forced them to take note of the relations of all objects to themselves …