Belief in a Good and Loving God: a Case Study in the Varieties of a Religious Belief [PDF]
, 2014 There has been much recent debate over the meaning of the claim that God is good and loving. Although the participants in this debate strongly disagree over the correct analysis of the claim, there is nonetheless agreement across all parties that there ...
Citron, Gabriel
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Reflection increases belief in God through self-questioning among non-believers [PDF]
Judgment and Decision Making, 2019 The dual-process model of the mind predicts that religious belief will be stronger for intuitive decisions, whereas reflective thinking will lead to religious disbelief (i.e., the intuitive religious belief hypothesis).
Onurcan Yilmaz, Ozan Isler
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Justifiability of Ordinary Belief in God through Epistemology Based on Trusted Hearings [PDF]
پژوهشنامه فلسفه دین, 2021 There have been many epistemological challenges about the justification of belief in God over the past three centuries, so that some, such as Plantinga, have merely proposed warranted belief rather than justifying an argument in this regard and showed ...
Hamidreza Ayatollahy
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Cognitive Pathways to Belief in Karma and Belief in God
Cognitive Science, 2020 AbstractSupernatural beliefs are ubiquitous around the world, and mounting evidence indicates that these beliefs partly rely on intuitive, cross‐culturally recurrent cognitive processes. Specifically, past research has focused on humans' intuitive tendency to perceive minds as part of the cognitive foundations of belief in a personified God—an agentic,
White, Cindel J.M. +3 more
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A Comparative Study of Cognitive Science of Religion and Reformed Epistemology [PDF]
Pizhūhish/hā-yi Falsafī- Kalāmī, 2022 Reformed epistemology, based on the reliability of the functions of cognitive faculties, holds that one can believe in God directly without argument or evidence.
Javad Darvish Aghajani
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Mackie vs Plantinga on the warrant of theistic belief without arguments
Scientia et Fides, 2016 My aim in this paper is to critically assess two opposing theses about the epistemology of religious belief. The first one, developed by John Mackie, claims that belief in God can be justified or warranted only if there is a good argument for the ...
Domingos Faria
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On God-Belief and Feeling Clean [PDF]
, 2016 Recent work has shown robust associations between morality and cleanliness. However, it is not known whether this association is equally consequential for everyone. I predicted that individuals high (vs.
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Belief and Personality Characteristics of Entrepreneurs from the Perspective of Islam
الأستاذ, 2015 This study aimed to identify the religious and ethical characteristics of entrepreneurs from the perspective of Islam. Entrepreneurship means creating a business with all the risks in the hope of success.
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Yoga, Christians Practicing Yoga, and God: On Theological Compatibility, or Is There a Better Question? [PDF]
, 2017 Houston is a wildly diverse city; nonetheless it should come as no surprise that the Houston Chronicle “Belief” section frequently features stories about church expansions or declines, pastoral developments, and other reports on Christian communities ...
Jain, Andrea R.
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Is God’s Benevolence Impartial? [PDF]
, 2013 In this paper I consider the intuitive idea that God is fair and does not play favorites. This belief appears to be held by many theists. I will call it the Principle of Impartial Benevolence (PIB) and put it as follows: As much as possible, for all ...
Garcia, Robert K.
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