The "obesogenic environment" contributes to the global obesity epidemic. However, many believe that obesity is caused solely by individual choice. This paper investigates how the public in Ireland, the UK, and USA perceive the causes, consequences and severity of obesity compared to an expert...

Experimental philosophy, as practiced by political philosophers, has tended to use experimental methods to gain leverage on traditional normative and political questions. Typically, these methods are the same ones used in cognitive and social psychology, which is to say non-incentivized,...

The chapter highlights how certain areas of IP Indian regimes are based on firm public interest focused principles. They not only offer IP owners monopolistic rights to extract economic value out of their inventions, plant varieties, signs or copyrighted works—they also strongly protect the...

The article entitled “Philosophy and Practice of Mozi's Educational Thought in Globalization” has three objectives: 1) to study the meaning of equality in education 2) to study Mozi's Educational Thought 3) to promote the philosophy and practice of Mozi for equality in education in...

"The Liberalism Trap identifies a methodological problem in contemporary political theory: focus on liberalism has become an interpretive custom directing engagements with politics. Though scholars have long analysed the meaning, merits, successes or failings of liberalism, little attention is...

Sei es durch Bankenkrisen oder Inflation, Schuldenbremse oder Zinsdebatten: Das Thema Geldpolitik ist in der Tagespolitik angekommen. Längst hat sich die Einsicht verbreitet, dass Geld kein neutrales Tauschmittel ist, sondern auch ein Instrument politischer Herrschaft. Gleichwohl fehlt noch...

This paper compares Adam Smith and Confucius’s view on morality through a comparative analysis of The Theory of Moral Sentiments and The Analects of Confucius. Smith and Confucius both base their theory of morality upon their theory of sympathy. Whereas Smith introduces the role of an...