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86Rationality and Methodological Change: Dudley Shapere's Conception of Scientific DevelopmentPrincipia: An International Journal of Epistemology 10 (1): 39-65. 2006.Over the last 4 or so decades, Dudley Shapere has developed a rich and interesting alternative to the Kuhnian “relativist” account of science and its development. This paper is a review of this alternative viewpoint. It is a critical evaluation of Shapere’s arguments in support of the claim that radical methodological change can be allowed in science without thereby embracing relativism (and without ending with an irrational account of scientific change)
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11Culture and the Principles of Biomedical EthicsJournal of Commercial Biotechnology 19 (3): 31-39. 2013.This paper examines the roles of culture in the principles of biomedical ethics. Drawing on examples from African, Navajo and Western cultures, the paper maintains that various elements of culture are indispensable to the application of the principles of biomedical ethics.
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Virtue-based leadership in the United Kingdom and NigeriaIn Carla Millar & Eve Poole (eds.), Ethical Leadership: Global Challenges and Perspectives, Palgrave-macmillan. 2010.
Kola Abimbola
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