/library/oar/handle/123456789/71634 Sun, 21 Dec 2025 23:05:46 GMT 2025-12-21T23:05:46Z /library/oar/handle/123456789/71896 Title: Symposia Melitensia : number 17 Authors: Satariano, Bernadine Abstract: Table of contents:; 1/ CASSAR, J. - Sexual behaviour trends among young people in Malta; 2/ CINI, M., & VELLA, M. G. - Necrophilia : notorious yet obscure; 3/ YOUNG, N. - Only two peas in a pod : on the overcoming of ontological taxonomies; 4/ GRECH, M. - Two ways of saying no to Quine; 5/ ZAHRA, P. - A translator’s appraisal of classical and Hellenistic influences in Flaubert’s Salammbo; 6/ CASSAR, M. - Malta and Sicily : an overview of their cognominal kinship; 7/ BORG PARNIS, R. - Colonialism and its impact on women in Dangarembga’s Nervous Conditions and The Book of Not; 8/ SANT BALZAN, J. - Seamus Heaney’s Sonnet in the ‘new age of anxiety’; 9/ AZZOPARDI, M., & AZZOPARDI, C. - Classification of Maltese biology examination questions using Bloom’s Revised Taxonomy; 10/ CARUANA, P. - Surviving the democratic deficit : the contribution of young citizens in the 21st century; 11/ SATARIANO, B. - The therapeutic value of the sea and its impact on health and wellbeing Fri, 01 Jan 2021 00:00:00 GMT /library/oar/handle/123456789/71896 2021-01-01T00:00:00Z /library/oar/handle/123456789/71895 Title: Sexual behaviour trends among young people in Malta Authors: Cassar, Joanne Abstract: This article presents a systematic literature review about the sexual practices of young people who live in Malta. These include surrounding issues such as age at first sexual experience, reasons for engaging in sex, number of sexual partners, contraception use and teenage pregnancy. The systematic literature review is also guided by key elements related to young people’s perspectives and knowledge base about sexual rights and sexual health. The review presents and critically explores research based on quantitative samples and also draws on findings from qualitative interviews, observational studies and young people’s writings on sexuality issues. The review shows that young people in Malta are exploring and engaging with post-traditional sexual lifestyles in which they are culturally and socially immersed. The review is intended to inform policymakers and practitioners working with young people. It also aims to identify preventive factors that are deemed important for securing young people’s sexual health and wellbeing. Finally the article identifies gaps in the literature on sexual behaviour and knowledge among young people in Malta. Fri, 01 Jan 2021 00:00:00 GMT /library/oar/handle/123456789/71895 2021-01-01T00:00:00Z /library/oar/handle/123456789/71894 Title: Only two peas in a pod : on the overcoming of ontological taxonomies Authors: Young, Niki Abstract: In his 2016 work entitled Dante’s Broken Hammer, Graham Harman first coins the term “onto-taxonomy”, and proclaims it to be the main nemesis of his “object- oriented” approach to philosophy. The term has however rarely appeared in the absolute majority of his subsequent works, and has also been largely overlooked by thinkers broadly working within and around the field of Object-Oriented Ontology (OOO). In this paper, I propose to make up for this relative neglect in two ways. Firstly, Harman’s critique of “onto-taxonomy” is analysed and situated in the context of other prominent critiques, such as those of Martin Heidegger’s assessment of “Onto-theology” and Quentin Meillassoux’s assessment of “correlationism.” Secondly, I shall show how what I believe to be the three fundamental tenets of Harman’s philosophical approach are derivable from his critique of “onto-taxonomy.” Fri, 01 Jan 2021 00:00:00 GMT /library/oar/handle/123456789/71894 2021-01-01T00:00:00Z /library/oar/handle/123456789/71892 Title: Two ways of saying no to Quine Authors: Grech, Michael Abstract: W. V. O. Quine holds that the raison d’etre of metaphysics is the drawing of two lists; the list of entities that are part of the world and of those that are not. To achieve this aim, he suggests regimenting true sentences belonging to ‘our best theories’ to determine their ontological commitments. Many accept Quine’s project, differing with each other regarding what are the best theories, the sentences that belong to these and the entities that are part of the world. Other philosophers find this characterization of metaphysics deficient. Jonathan Schaffer considers the issue of what exists as trivial or uninteresting. The important issue is whether the things said to exist exists derivatively or fundamentally. He believes that there is a set of fundamental entities, and metaphysics ought to be concerned primarily with delineating this set of entities. Philosophical debates ought to be reconsidered along these lines. Theodore Sider on the other hand, thinks that the world contains a distinctive structure, and the aim of metaphysics is to discover the notions that enable us to describe facts concerning structure. Some of the possibilities and limits of these two approaches are highlighted. Fri, 01 Jan 2021 00:00:00 GMT /library/oar/handle/123456789/71892 2021-01-01T00:00:00Z