This essay examines the contemporary discourse on inflation through the lens of Wittgenstein's late work on language games. Using his concept of hinge propositions - beliefs upon which language games depend - I offer a novel perspective on the public good that is price stability. In particular,...

This work offers the first comprehensive comparison between the philosophy of Adam Smith and that of his successor, Thomas Reid. It looks at Reid's and Smith's remarkably similar accounts of human perception and judgement, and at their different moral and economic theories. In this way, this...

In the Theory of Moral Sentiments, Smith argued against the account of human nature which views moral sentiments as deriving from self-love. This paper emphasises that Smith's understanding of human nature was not that it was either selfish or benevolent. Human nature consists of the ability to...

The renewed engagement with Aristotle's concept of practical wisdom in management and organization studies is reflective of the wider turn towards practice sweeping across many disciplines. In this sense, it constitutes a welcome move away from the traditional rationalist, abstract, and...

The concept of African Ubuntu has been a subject of discussion among many authors and it has been in existence for many years. Ideals associated with Ubuntu are major source of inspiration as its value is of interest to global readers. This write up intends to bring a discussion on the...

Experimental philosophy, as practiced by political philosophers, has tended to use experimental methods to gain leverage on traditional normative and political questions. Typically, these methods are the same ones used in cognitive and social psychology, which is to say non-incentivized,...

The chapter highlights how certain areas of IP Indian regimes are based on firm public interest focused principles. They not only offer IP owners monopolistic rights to extract economic value out of their inventions, plant varieties, signs or copyrighted works—they also strongly protect the...

The article entitled “Philosophy and Practice of Mozi's Educational Thought in Globalization” has three objectives: 1) to study the meaning of equality in education 2) to study Mozi's Educational Thought 3) to promote the philosophy and practice of Mozi for equality in education in...

This paper focuses on exploring the functions of education and the concept of knowledge in Islam. The importance of human intelligence compared to artificial intelligence and the importance of language in education is also discussed. This paper further examined phenomena, true concepts, the...

This article argues that the current crisis of environmental degradation and global inequality is caused by the dominance of the philosophical principles of individualism and neo-liberalism in public and private economic decision-making since the 1970s. This crisis can be overcome by a...

About the necessity and usefulness of developing a philosophy specific to the blockchain technology, emphasizing on the ontological aspects. After an Introduction that highlights the main philosophical directions for this emerging technology, in Blockchain Technology I explain the way the...

The evolution of history as an academic discipline began in the 19th century. The role of the German historians in making the discipline cannot be underestimated as Leopold von Ranke is deemed the ‘father of history’. The impeccable role of the father of Sociology, Auguste Comte can also not...

Adam Smith included understanding and belonging among basic human needs. Humans have spiritual and material needs that they can satisfy through coordination and cooperation, both need communication. Religion and philosophy emerge when people communicate the explanations they have of their...

Purpose This paper aims to argue that Economics is not a neutral science. Design/methodology/approach Post-structuralist perspective of Lyotard (1984), alongside the Pragmatics of Searle (1979) and Travis (1981) are useful for analyzing enunciations in mainstream Economics. Findings Economists...

I argue that meta-ignorance and meta-insensitivity are the key sources influencing the reoccurrence of the (un)conscious misrepresentation of marginalized groups in management and organization research; such misrepresentation, in effect, perpetuates epistemic neocolonialism. Meta-ignorance...

Adam Smith does not focus on the creation of an ideal world, but on the understanding that societal changes for the better are an unintentional product of commerce. Furthermore, as if to highlight the concreteness of these changes, he sees population growth as the way to measure this betterment...

Transdisciplinary Management of Polycrises – A Philosophical Approach -- Methodology of Transdisciplinarity–Levels of Reality, Logic of the Included Middle and Complexity -- History of Science in a Transdisciplinary Perspective - From Transdisciplinarity to Transcultural Science -- Levels of...

"The birth of philosophical thought across the ancient world brought with it a keen interest in the study of leadership - reflections on who should lead and on how to create the best leadership structures became central to the debates of most prominent ancient philosophers. Philosophy and...

Teil I Der Wandel.: 1. Der Wandel -- 2. Gedanken zur gegenwärtigen Lage -- 3. Das Wesen des Wandels -- 3.1 Der Wandel – ein universales Prinzip 3.2 Die Metamorphose – Ausdruck des Wandels -- 3.3 Verborgene Kräfte – Antreiber des Wandels -- 3.4 Die Absicht des Wandels -- 4. Der Wandel und...

Vorwort -- 1. Konstruktion des Welt- und Selbstbildes -- 2. Gedanken zum Konstruieren -- 3. Narrativ – Das Selbst im Erzählmodus -- 3.1 Geschichtenerzählen – Immanentes -- 3.2 Bild- und Symbolsprache – Archetypisches -- 3.3 Vorhersage – Futuristisches -- 3.4 Fazit zum Narrativ -- 4....

Introduction and Background -- Attitudes toward Bribery Country Perspectives -- Attitudes toward Bribery Countries by Income Group -- Attitudes toward Bribery Regional Perspectives -- Bribery and Religion -- How Serious is Bribery -- Summary and Conclusions.