Ethics and Care-Worker Migration Cited as one of the most pressing issues of our times, health care worker migration is now occurring at unprecedented rates. In the post-colonial era, as many developing countries began to develop and expand their health services and to educate their citizens to staff them, more educated workers left for wealthier countries, often those of the colonists or ones that shared

Ignacio Ellacuría (1930–1989) Ignacio Ellacuría, ein eingebürgerter Staatsbürger von El Salvador, wurde 1930 in Spanien geboren. Er trat 1947 den Jesuiten bei und wurde schnell nach El Salvador geschickt, wo er die nächsten zweiundvierzig Jahre lebte und arbeitete, außer in Zeiten, in denen er seine Ausbildung in Ecuador fortsetzte, Spanien, und Westdeutschland. Er entwickelte einen wichtigen und neuartigen Beitrag zu Lateinamerika

The Knowledge Argument Against Physicalism The knowledge argument is one of the main challenges to physicalism, the doctrine that the world is entirely physical. The argument begins with the claim that there are truths about consciousness that cannot be deduced from the complete physical truth. Zum Beispiel, Frank Jackson’s Mary learns all the physical truths from within a black-and-white room. Then she leaves the room,

Donald Davidson: Philosophy of Language Donald Davidson (1917-2003) was one of the most influential analytic philosophers of language during the second half of the twentieth century and the first decade of the twenty-first century. An attraction of Davidson’s philosophy of language is the set of conceptual connections he draws between traditional questions about language and issues that arise in other fields of philosophy, including especially

The Yablo Paradox The Yablo Paradox implies there is no way to coherently assign a truth value to any of the sentences in the countably infinite sequence of sentences, each of the form, “All of the subsequent sentences are false.” Specifically, the Yablo Paradox arises when we consider the following infinite sequence of sentences: The Yablo sequence of sentences seem paradoxical in the

The Bhagavad Gītā The Bhagavad Gītā occurs at the start of the sixth book of the Mahābhārata—one of South Asia’s two main epics, formulated at the start of the Common Era (C.E.). It is a dialog on moral philosophy. The lead characters are the warrior Arjuna and his royal cousin, Kṛṣṇa, who offered to be his charioteer and who is also an avatar of the