A PHILOSOPHICAL APPRAISAL OF GEORGEBERKELEY'S SUBJECTIVE IDEALISM.  

2021-01-01
The long essay attempts a philosophical appraisal of GeorgeBerkeley's subjective idealism. The epistemological basis of this essay stands finnly 011 L-ocke's representative theory of perception. Berkeley who is one of ...

A PHILOSOPHICAL APPRAISAL OF IFA AS A SOURCE OF KNOWLEDGE TO AFRICAN EPISTEMOLOGY.  

2012-12-12
The origin of African epistemology dates as far back as 4000 B.C.E (Before the common era). Although much of African history had been passed down by oral traditions, there were ...

A PHILOSOPHICAL APPRAISAL OF THE METAPHYSICAL NATURE OF WITCHCRAFT IN YORUBA WORLDVIEW.  

2012-12-12
The concept witchcraft has attracted tremendous attention in the history of thinkers and African philosophers who have come to give various insights and understanding on this concept. This research work ...

A PHILOSOPHICAL APPRAISAL OF THE RIGHTS OF ANIMALS.  

2012-12-12
It is strange and revealing that we class chimpanzees and mosquitoes together as animals and exclude ourselves from this class. Plato thought that it was no more sensible to divide ...

A PHILOSOPHICAL APPRAISAL OF THE RIGHTS OF ANIMALS.  

2012-12-12
Proponents of animal welfare and animal rights have different views about the moral significance of human psychological kinship with other animals. Animal welfarists have two options. First, they can argue ...

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

2014-05-05
Thomas Kuhn in the attempt to explain his own view of scrent1fic knowledge uses the word 'Paradigm. At the same he tries to differentiate between normal science and extraordinary science. ...

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

2014-05-05
The nature of scientific progress and the rationality of scientific change lies at the centre of Karl·s Poppers and Thomas Kuhn's thought. This research work provides and analysis of the ...

A PHILOSOPHICAL COMPARISON OF FRANCIS BECON KNOWLEDGE AND BELIEF IN AND EDMUND GETTIER.  

2015-04-04
There is numerous literature which are relevant to this study. While writing on a critique of Edmund Gettier's account of knowledge."Essays in Epistemology An exercise on the critique of cognition" ...

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 ...

A PHILOSOPHICAL EXAMINATION OF POLYGAMY IN YORUBA SOCIO-CULTURAL SETTING.  

2014-05-05
Polygny is a marriage is the commonest practised among African people. Most men in Africa that practice such marriage use the avenue to add to their prestige anel respect among ...