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Rawls, the severely cognitively disabled and the person life view
(University of the Western Cape, 2015)
A political arrangement is an arrangement for persons. Political arrangements are
assessed in terms of the extent to which they manage the affairs of persons, which
includes protecting their interests and entitlements. ...
Exploring the philosophical mind: An empirical investigation of the process of philosophizing using the protocol analysis methodology
(University of Western Cape, 2019)
Many empirically supported versions of stage and componential models of the cognitive processing
underlying the completion of various tasks spanning a wide range of domains have been developed by
cognitive scientists of ...
National Health Insurance (NHI) – towards Universal Health Coverage (UHC) for all in South Africa: a philosophical analysis
(University of the Western Cape, 2020)
This study is a philosophical analysis of the National Health Insurance (NHI) policy and legislation, including the related NHI Fund, with a view to assessing its prospects in realising Universal Health Coverage (UHC). The ...
A critical exploration of the ideas of person and community in traditional Zulu thought.
(University of the Western Cape, 2021)
The issue of personhood has long been of concern to many philosophers. The primary concern
has been about determining the necessary and sufficient conditions for an entity to be a person
at a particular point in time. ...
Die wond sê dit aan my: die morele wêreldbeskouing van die |xam as eko-morele fenomenologie
(University of the Western Cape, 2020)
Despite the loss of speakers of |xam, one of the 28 Khoisan languages once spoken across Southern Africa, a part of the heritage of these speakers can be found in predominantly two archives: that of Wilhelm H. I. Bleek and ...
Child sex tourism in South Africa: A children's rights perspective
(University of the Western Cape, 2016)
In the words of Najat Maall M'jid, former United Nations (UN) Special Rapporteur on
the Sale of Children, Child Prostitution and Child Pornography:
'As the world reflects on the universal development goals for the ...
Can Armstrong cope with Libet’s challenge?
(University of the Western Cape, 2020)
According to our ordinary conception of voluntary action, our actions are the causal result of conscious intentions. To take a very basic example: I wish to take a sip of coffee, and I therefore reach out and take hold of ...
Called and Queer Exploring the lived experiences of queer clergy in the Methodist Church of Southern Africa
(university of western cape, 2020)
In South Africa anti-queer attitudes are propped up by religious moral claims and by strong assertions that queer sexualities are un-African and a secular Western import. This study contributes to the growing body of ...
A Critical Study of Doubt (Shakk) and Certainty (Yaqīn) in Ghazālī’s Epistemology
(University of the Western Cape, 2021)
Our secular age is a period of scepticism and ubiquitous doubt. The epistemology of a paradigmatic figure like Abū Ḥāmid al-Ghazālī (1058-1111) is central to Islamic intellectual thought, but also speaks to our modern ...
Epistemicide: A conceptual analysis in African epistemology
(University of the Western Cape, 2022)
Many social scientists, philosophers and theorists have applied Boaventura de Sousa
Santos’s conceptual neologism, ‘Epistemicide’, in various fields, in singular reference
to a set of mutually distinct phenomena. This ...