by Dr Roland Chia | Aug 5, 2019 | Pulse
August 2019 Pulse In March 2018, the Select Committee on Deliberate Online Falsehoods conducted a series of hearings over a period of eight days to gather views and recommendations from scholars, the media and the general public on a phenomenon that has generated...
by Dr Roland Chia | Jul 15, 2019 | Pulse
July 2019 Pulse One of the most controversial fields of inquiry that has emerged in the last century during the post-war years is gender studies. Various influences have been attributed to the shaping of this field, whose influence is now felt in a wide variety of...
by Ethos Institute | Jul 1, 2019 | Pulse
July 2019 Pulse One of the most important breakthroughs in modern medicine in the treatment of patients with certain forms of organ failure is organ transplantation. In the case of patients with kidney failure, for example, renal transplantation is preferred to...
by Ethos Institute | Jun 17, 2019 | Pulse
June 2019 Pulse In his book entitled Christianity and Marxism (1995), the renowned Scottish philosopher, Alasdair Macintyre, observes that there are three ways in which modern western society has viewed Marxist philosophy. The first is to accept Marxism in toto as...
by Dr Roland Chia | Jun 8, 2019 | Pulse
July 2019 Pulse In 2014, the Institute of Mental Health in Singapore conducted a study involving adult residents aged between 18 and 65 years. Entitled, The Mind Matters: A study of Mental Health Literacy this study sought to obtain information about the general...
by Ethos Institute | Jun 3, 2019 | Pulse
June 2019 Pulse In an article in The Guardian published on 4 May 2018, Philip Oltermann maintains that the thought of Karl Marx – that towering if controversial figure in the history of modern European philosophy and economics – is experiencing something of a revival....
