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Open Journal of Philosophy (OJPP) is an international journal dedicated to the latest advancements in philosophy. The goal of this journal is to provide a platform for scientists and academicians all over the world to promote, share, and discuss various new issues and developments in different areas of philosophy. "Op…
Akowanou Clément Ahouandjinou, Cheikh Ibrahima Niang
The presence of private operators in the water sector may seem paradoxical. On the one hand, they have their profit margin to preserve, and on the other, the social aspect to keep in mind. This is a real challenge. The private operator in the water sector mus…
Jan-Erik Lane
It is now commonplace to renounce rational action in the social sciences. It is claimed that rationality as the maximization of self-interest is impossible as well as that it is unethical. Yet rational choice remains a most important paradigm for understandin…
Cara Tarullo, Ana Houseal
Positioning theory was used to identify interactions between an instructor and student in a general science class. Using Anderson’s analysis categories and multiple forms of data provided space to look at typically unseen dynamics. One salient conversation be…
Richard Startup
Progress may be made in resolving the tension between free will and determinism by analysis of the necessary conditions of freedom. It is of the essence that these conditions include causal and deterministic regularities. Furthermore, the human expression of…
Shining Star Lyngdoh
In this paper, an attempt has been made to uncover the problem of metaphorical language in its relation to fleshliness and embodiedness as found in the critical reading of the texts of Derrida. The fleshliness of metaphorical language is embodied in our bodil…
Federica D’Isanto, Grazia Barone, Maria Rosaria Masullo
This paper analyses the phenomenon of gender discrimination in the science, technology, engineering, and mathematics (STEM) sector, which has always b een known for its strong segregation, both horizontal and vertical. Our purpose is to uncover more hidden me…
Hanhui Xu
Parental obligations are the obligations acquired by parents to their young children. It is believed that parents have special obligations to their children. However, what are the contents of such obligations? Are parental obligations limited to meeting child…
Loulou Malaeb
This paper inspects the form of freedom that exists in Dubai to make people living in the city happy and satisfied. I ponder Berlin’s two notions of negative and positive freedom to see whether these notions can truly categorically exclude one another in the…
Raphael Cohen-Almagor
Coercion involves two or more parties who are in conflict and whose relati on ships are complex and uneasy. Generally speaking, people resent coercion an d, when possible, rebel against it. This paper differentiates between circumstantial coercion and person-…
Maria Jose Arrojo
The development of emerging information systems is crucial in two directi ons. First, these systems increase the accessibility of information to be used by the enterprise social systems. The improvement in the accessibility of the infor mation has a direct re…
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Open Journal of Philosophy (OJPP) is an international journal dedicated to the latest advancements in philosophy. The goal of this journal is to provide a platform for scientists and academicians all over the world to promote, share, and discuss various new issues and developments in different areas of philosophy. "Op… All articles are open access under a CC BY 4.0 licence, with authors retaining copyright.
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