THE IMPLICATIONOF THE CONTEXTUALIST THEMES OF LUDWIG WITTGENSTEIN AND RICHARD RORTY FOR SOCIO- CULTURAL DEVELOPMENT OF CONTEMPORARY NIGERIA SOCIETY.  

2014-05-05
Contextualism holds that the content of an utterance is meaningful rn reference to the circumstances, the context, in which it is uttered. ln particular, two utterances of the same sentence ...

A PHILOSOPHICAL CRITIQUE OF SOLUDO'S"CAN NIGERIA BE THE CHINA OF AFRICA?"  

2014-05-05
Infrastructural deficiencies, insecurity of lives and property, corruption, unemployment, educational crisis, ethnicity and religious problem, Governance and political instability, economic problem are some of the challenges that were been identified ...

RENE DESCARTES, JUSTIFICATION OF THE METAPHYSICAL THEORY OF MIND: A PHILOSOPHICAL RETROSPECT.  

2014-05-05
Rene Descartes was one of the pi-ominent rationalists who were born in 1596 in France. He was the European father of modern philosophy and was educated at the Jesuit College. ...

A CRITIQUE OF THE YORUBA PERSPECTIVE ON DEATH.  

2014-05-05
The fact of death is a baffling and disturbing question for human beings. Man has been raced since he became acquainted with death with the question of his origin and ...

A CRITICAL EVALUATION OF JOHN LOCKE'SNOTION OF "TABULA-RASA" AS A CRITIQUE OF PLATO'S INNATISM.  

2014-05-05
This research shall mainly focus on the evaluation of John Locke's "Tabula-Rasa" and shall be used to criticize Plato's work on "lnnatism". In this research work, Analytical method shall be ...

THE FALLACY IN YORUBA METAPHYSICAL NOTION OF NECROMANCY.  

2014-05-05
Metaphysics was derived from two Greek words "Meta" which means "after", and"physika" which means "physics" or "nature."1 This word metaphysics literally means '' after physics'', and it was first used ...

A PHILOSOPHICAL, APPRAISAL OF THOMAS KUHN AND KARL POPPER'S VIEWS OF THE NATURE OF SCIENCE.  

2014-05-05
THIS RESEARCH WOK IS FOCUSED ON A PHILOSOPHICAL, APPRAISAL OF THOMAS KUHN AND KARL POPPER'S VIEWS OF THE NATURE OF SCIENCE.

MORAL ISSUES INVOLVED IN PROSTITUTION: A PHILOSOPHICAL ANALYSIS.  

2014-05-05
There is no doubt as a socia our contemporary world. The fact that prostitution is a social problem also explains why it is an ethical problem The problem so pervasive ...

A CRITICAL EVALUATION OF GETTIER'S FOURTH CONDITION OF KNOWLEDGE.  

2014-05-05
Knowledge has been an essential, inevitable part of humanity. It is an important concept in philosophy that seeks to investigate the process of cognition and all problems associated with its ...

ESTIMATION OF THE COEFFICIENT OF THERMAL EXPANSION OF METALS USING PAIR POTENTIAL FUNCTION.  

2014-05-05
A polynomial pair potential function has been developed to estimate the temperature dependent coefficient of thermal expansion of metals. The parameters of this pair potential were determined by fitting the ...