Phila Mfundo Msimang
Biographic Data
| ID | 6298474 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Phila Mfundo Msimang |
| GIVEN NAMES | Phila Mfundo |
| FAMILY NAME | Msimang |
| SIGNATURE | MSIMANG P M |
| AFFILIATIONS | University of KwaZulu-Natal |
| ORCID | 0000-0003-0817-3363 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 4 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 0 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 4 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2014 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2022 |
| H-INDEX | 0 |
What Is Race? Four Philosophers, Six Views
Covid-19 and Affirmative Action
Ovett Nwosimiri argues in a paper he published in 2021 that affirmative action and preferential hiring policies are no longer appropriate for South Africa because of the economic impact of the COVID-19 pandemic. The case he makes is that since COVID-19 has impacted people of all races, there should no longer be any consideration of race in hiring policies and practices. He claims that continued preferential hiring practices unfairly discriminate …
Problems with the ‘physical’ in physicalism
Hempel's Dilemma is a challenge that has to be met by any formulation of physicalism that specifies the physical by reference to a particular physical theory. It poses the problem that if one's specification of the physical is ‘current’ physical theory, then the physicalism which depends on it is false because current physics is false; and if the specification of the physical is a future or an ideal physics, the physicalism based on it would be t…
Living in One World
Searle’s social ontology concerns the question of how it is that we are to reconcile different aspects of reality but takes for granted a particular kind of naturalism based on his unexplicated “basic facts” of nature. The consequence of this approach is that Searle’s ontology deals specifically with social reality and its institutions, and never directly with the basic facts upon which his position rests. Paradoxically, this naturalistic assumpt…
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Living in One World
Searle’s social ontology concerns the question of how it is that we are to reconcile different aspects of reality but takes for granted a particular kind of naturalism based on his unexplicated “basic facts” of nature. The consequence of this approach is that Searle’s ontology deals specifically with social reality and its institutions, and never directly with the basic facts upon which his position rests. Paradoxically, this naturalistic assumpt…
Problems with the ‘physical’ in physicalism
Hempel's Dilemma is a challenge that has to be met by any formulation of physicalism that specifies the physical by reference to a particular physical theory. It poses the problem that if one's specification of the physical is ‘current’ physical theory, then the physicalism which depends on it is false because current physics is false; and if the specification of the physical is a future or an ideal physics, the physicalism based on it would be t…
What Is Race? Four Philosophers, Six Views
Covid-19 and Affirmative Action
Ovett Nwosimiri argues in a paper he published in 2021 that affirmative action and preferential hiring policies are no longer appropriate for South Africa because of the economic impact of the COVID-19 pandemic. The case he makes is that since COVID-19 has impacted people of all races, there should no longer be any consideration of race in hiring policies and practices. He claims that continued preferential hiring practices unfairly discriminate …
Epistemology (3 works) · Sociology (3 works) · Gender Studies (2 works) · Philosophy (2 works) · Philosophy and History of Science (2 works) · Psychology (2 works) · 2019-20 coronavirus outbreak (1 works) · Affirmative action (1 works) · Biosemiotics (1 works) · Chemistry (1 works)