Journal of Philosophical Investigations
Rethinking The Lockean Approach to The Problem of Personal Identity
Rethinking The Lockean Approach to The Problem of Personal Identity

Taiwo Wesley Osemwegie؛ Ike Odimegwu

دوره 17، شماره 45 ، دی 1402، ، صفحه 231-249

https://doi.org/10.22034/jpiut.2023.29464.2110

چکیده
  The problem of personal identity among others may stem from the following question—what does be the person that you are, from one day to the next, necessarily consist of? The diachronic problem of personal identity raises question on the necessary and sufficient conditions for the identity of the person over time. The synchronic problem is grounded in the ...  بیشتر
The Challenges of Higher Education in Nigeria Vis-À-Vis Hegel’s Model of Development: a critical analysis
The Challenges of Higher Education in Nigeria Vis-À-Vis Hegel’s Model of Development: a critical analysis

Wesley Osemwegie

دوره 16، شماره 41 ، دی 1401، ، صفحه 87-101

https://doi.org/10.22034/jpiut.2022.51398.3196

چکیده
  This work takes a critical and cursory look at the term ‘education’ as well as the challenges of higher education in Nigeria. The paper explicates these issues from Hegel’s model of development. It argues that education is imperative for the development of any nation and underscores the relevance of man to his social-cultural milieu. It insists ...  بیشتر
Genetic Engineering, Artificial Intelligence, and Natural Man: An Existential Inquiry into Being and Rights
Genetic Engineering, Artificial Intelligence, and Natural Man: An Existential Inquiry into Being and Rights

Anthony Asekhauno؛ Wesley Osemwegie

دوره 13، شماره 28 ، آبان 1398، ، صفحه 181-193

https://doi.org/10.22034/jpiut.2019.34081.2350

چکیده
  .It is apt and usual to cogitate and ratiocinate man and human rights; it is less so about or with (other) animal rights; and much more less and lesser so with/about “plant rights” and (possibly) the rights of cloned/the artificially intelligent agents’. This condition is unfair and not ideal because man, other animals, plants, and other human ...  بیشتر
That Philosophy as Epistemological-Based is Not Debased: A Critique of Post-Modernist/Hermeneutic Critique of Traditional Philosophy
That Philosophy as Epistemological-Based is Not Debased: A Critique of Post-Modernist/Hermeneutic Critique of Traditional Philosophy

Anthony Asekhauno؛ Wesley Osemwegie

دوره 11، شماره 21 ، دی 1396، ، صفحه 13-23

چکیده
  Over the centuries, beginning with the classic Greeks through the trends of the mid-20th century, philosophical enterprise has been intricately and seemingly irretrievably rooted in the theory of the given—an edification of philosophy as that giant mirror and standard for measuring what counts as knowledge; but is it thus synonymous with or reducible to ...  بیشتر