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Engineered Identity: Albanian Nationalism and the Limits of Established Nationalism Theories

Nations and Nationalism, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT This article analyses the development of Albanian nationalism as a test case for assessing the explanatory reach of three major approaches to the study of nationalism: modernist, constructivist and historical‐comparative. Rather than privileging a single theoretical framework, the article places these approaches in dialogue, treating them as ...
Alda Kushi
wiley   +1 more source

Horkheimer, Religion, and the Normative Grounds of Critical Theory [PDF]

, 2015
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Brittain, Christopher Craig
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A Semi-Supervised Approach to Detecting Stance in Tweets

, 2016
Stance classification aims to identify, for a particular issue under discussion, whether the speaker or author of a conversational turn has Pro (Favor) or Con (Against) stance on the issue.
Ecker, Brian, Hahn, Nicolas, Handleman, Theodore, Misra, Amita, Walker, Marilyn   +4 more
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Anselm's Temporal‐Ontological Proof

Noûs, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT In his Reply to Gaunilo, Anselm presented two additional arguments for the existence of God beyond those that appear in the Proslogion. In “The Logical Structure of Anselm's Argument,” Robert M. Adams isolates each. One, he develops into a modal ontological argument along the lines of other 20th century ontological arguments (e.g., those of ...
Daniel Rubio
wiley   +1 more source

ظاهرة الإلحاد في العالم الغربي ظهورها وانتشارها

Al-Mağallah Al-ʿilmiyyaẗ Li Kulliyyaẗ Al-Adāb - Ǧāmiʿaẗ Asyūṭ
يتناول هذا البحث ظاهرة الإلحاد في العالم الغربي من حيث أسباب ظهورها وانتشارها لما لذلك من أثر كبير وتأثير كبير في ظهور وانتشار الإلحاد في العالم العربي، فقد مر الإلحاد بمراحل ابتداءً من الظهور ونشوء الفكرة، ثم التوسع وتمدد النفوذ حتى اكتسح بعض البلاد ...
فواز بن مساعد بن عبدالله الدوسري
doaj   +1 more source

Simulations All the Way Up! An Atheist's Response to the Fine‐Tuning Argument

Analytic Philosophy, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT So the Fine‐tuning Argument goes, because it is so unlikely for the physical constants of the laws of nature to have taken the values that they in fact take, we should significantly raise our credence that God exists. Simulation Arguments argue that our world might be (or, in stronger versions, that it probably is) a mere computer simulation ...
Nikk Effingham
wiley   +1 more source

Māori atheism: a decolonising project?

Kōtuitui
New Zealand census data points to a pattern of religious change – a growing sector of the Māori community are disaffiliating from Christianity at roughly the same rate as the ‘no religion’ category is expanding.
Masoumeh Rahmani, Peter Adds, Rebekah Senanayake   +2 more
doaj   +1 more source

Religious Beliefs and Philosophical Views: A Qualitative Study [PDF]

, 2018
Philosophy of religion is often regarded as a philosophical discipline in which irrelevant influences, such as upbringing and education, play a pernicious role.
De Cruz, Helen
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Argumentatively Navigating Deep Disagreements

Philosophy and Phenomenological Research, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT When disagreements cut deep, epistemic agents face a predicament. Although disagreements have been widely hailed for their epistemic benefits, deep disagreements are often plagued with argumentative hurdles preventing the attainment of such epistemic goods.
Jordi Fairhurst
wiley   +1 more source

Seeing Through the Invisible Pink Unicorn [PDF]

, 2010
This paper explores the quasi-religious aspects of the Invisible Pink Unicorn (IPU), an internet based spoof of religion. IPU message boards situate a moral orientation in an ongoing interactional process that sacralizes parody and an idealized form of ...
Abel, Andrew Stuart, Schaefer, Andrew P.
core   +1 more source