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Abstract Previous analyses of the drug research and development pipeline have shown that, between 1975 and 1999, only 1.1% of new therapeutic products were developed for poverty-related infectious and parasitic diseases. Since then, new initiatives …

Abstract This paper addresses the challenge posed to our ordinary conception of theoretical rationality by cases of so-called "epistemic acrasia", which can be defined prima facie as cases in which a subject finds himself believing what he otherwise knows …

Abstract Like science, religion has been the object, in 20th-century theology and religious phenomenology, of an irrationalist interpretation, tending, as in the case of science, to reject all attempts at justification and objectification, in favor of …

Abstract Solidarity is a fundamental principle of Brazilian foreign policy, of which "South-South" international cooperation has become an essential component. At least 40% of Brazil's cooperation projects with developing countries are in the healthcare …

Abstract The concept of global health diplomacy applies both to an organization and to processes of communication and negotiation that shape and govern the international political context of public health and its determinants. The presentation will …

Abstract The explosion of the HIV/AIDS epidemic and the increase in numerous violent conflicts were, in the 1990s, two dominant features in sub-Saharan Africa. During the same period, Sub-Saharan Africa experienced an increase in conflict in many states. …

Abstract Globalization offers opportunities, but also imposes new constraints on the countries of the South. In view of the barely discreet violence of the unethical competition it organizes, and the risks and uncertainties to which it exposes …

Abstract Rationalism" à la française " smacks of outdated positivism, or at least tends to evoke the names of Lachelier, Fouillée or Renouvier rather than contemporary philosophers. Reason, rationalism and rationality are, however, notions claimed to a …

Abstract Reasons to act and reasons to believe seem fundamentally different. But are they not based on the same structures? Kant maintained that it is always one and the same reason that, whether from a theoretical or practical point of view, judges …

Abstract In politics, the frankest alternative to the idea that the common reason of citizens can discover good laws is the decisionist thesis that " auctoritas, non veritas, facit legem " (Hobbes, Lev. lat. , c. XXVI). If law is solely a matter of …

Abstract Our reflection on the health role of women in Africa requires a prior redefinition of the concept of health, which in our cultures is not limited to modern Western-style hospital care. We believe this is essential to ensure that the unilateral …

Abstract Before recently joining the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation as Program Manager in the HIV team, Dr Paulin Basinga was Deputy Director in charge of Research at the School of Public Health of the National University of Rwanda in Kingali. His …

Abstract If it is understood that the international community is in search of a humanizing and inclusive globalization in which health should be given a prominent place, it is clear that the ACP Group and its 80 member states, which concentrate the …

Abstract Globalization is perceived in two ways, in relation to its origin or causality: first, it is the expansion - diffusion from a center, of all kinds of progress and supposed progress achieved or in the process of being achieved by advanced …

Abstract Socio-sanitary development is a dynamic adaptive process to macro-economic, micro-economic, socio-cultural, technological and climate change conditions. Public health and healthcare strategies are increasingly based on scientific evidence. The …

Abstract What is known is necessarily true (if something we think we know turns out to be false at some point, we'll just say we thought we knew it). This can easily create the impression, based on an elementary logical error, that there is knowledge only …

Abstract Georg Christoph Lichtenberg was a critical Aufklärer , resolutely rationalist, but aware that educating people is not enough to make them better and wiser. In the eyes of Jacques Bouveresse, for whom he is one of his favorite references, he …

Abstract The cause is clear: rationalism in its broadest sense - in other words, the conviction, in itself rather vague, that "reason" remains our best possible mode of access to the intelligibility of the world in general and the human condition more …

Abstract In his essays and in his great novel The Man Without Qualities , Robert Musil defends a singular position in metaphilosophical space, combining philosophical naturalism with Romanticism. This conception can be aptly characterized (in allusion to …

Abstract According to Carnap's principle of tolerance, everyone is free to adopt the logico-linguistic framework they consider most useful for their purposes, without having to justify their choice with any philosophical argument. The principle …