Development planning and citizenship in Cape Town

JJ Williams - Development Southern Africa, 2005 - Taylor & Francis
This article argues that there is a dialectical relationship between development planning and
citizenship in so far as planners, as institutional decision-makers, ensure a meaningful …

Morals, metaphysics and the method of cases

S Beck - South African Journal of Philosophy, 2010 - Taylor & Francis
In this paper I discuss a set of problems concerning the method of cases as it is used in
applied ethics and in the metaphysical debate about personal identity. These problems stem …

These bizarre fictions: thought-experiments, our psychology and our selves

S Beck - Philosophical papers, 2006 - Taylor & Francis
Philosophers have traditionally used thought-experiments in their endeavours to find a
satisfactory account of the self and personal identity. Yet there are considerations from …

Human rights and citizenship in post-apartheid South Africa

JJ Williams - Critical Arts, 2001 - Taylor & Francis
Abstract The South African constitutional discourse is the foundational agency that produces
citizenship, centring subjectivity as a relational engagement with the existential reality of the …

Our identity, responsibility and biology

S Beck - 2004 - philpapers.org
Abstract Eric Olson argues in The Human Animal that thought-experiments involving body-
swapping do not in the end offer any support to psychological continuity theories, nor do …