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Iberian Scepticism in Istanbul: The Hebrew Philosophical Dialogue Attributed to Don Joseph Nasi

Renaissance Studies, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT On 28 April 1577, the printer Joseph Ya’abetz in Constantinople printed a rare Hebrew pamphlet titled Ben Porat Yosef (Joseph, the Offspring of a Fertile Tree). Its author, Isaac ben Samuel Onkeneira, claims to report a philosophical debate between Don Joseph Nasi (1524–1579), the powerful Portuguese‐born agent at the Ottoman court, and a ...
Carsten L. Wilke
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Transparent Artificial Intelligence in Theology Classrooms: Ethical and Pedagogical Insights of the Apertus Model for Religious Education

Teaching Theology &Religion, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT This study investigates how openness in AI design influences theological learning in religious education (RE). Drawing on Zizioulas's theology of personhood and Floridi's information ethics and aligned with the Greek upper‐secondary RE curriculum, an open‐source multilingual model (Apertus) is compared with a proprietary system (GPT‐5).
Christos Papakostas
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Impact of spiritual values on tourists' psychological wellbeing: evidence from China's Buddhist mountains. [PDF]

Front Psychol, 2023
Zhang G, Huang K, Shen S.
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The Form of Agency

Noûs, Volume 60, Issue 4, Page 875-889, December 2026.
ABSTRACT Philosophers often think agency is essentially connected with rationality, intention, or control. However, Minimalists argue that agency is just the power to cause a change; acids and boulders are agents too. Many philosophers treat Minimalism as a wild outlier, assuming its falsity without argument.
William Hornett
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Indoctrination and Democratic Legitimacy

Philosophy &Public Affairs, Volume 54, Issue 4, Page 274-288, Fall 2026.
ABSTRACT I argue that indoctrination undermines voter competence, and that widespread indoctrination thereby compromises the legitimacy of otherwise free and fair elections. Drawing on recent work in virtue epistemology, I provide an epistemic account of indoctrination according to which one is indoctrinated only if they hold an epistemically impactful
James H. McIntyre
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AI Alignment Versus AI Ethical Treatment: 10 Challenges

Analytic Philosophy, Volume 67, Issue 4, Page 309-327, December 2026.
ABSTRACT A morally acceptable course of AI development should avoid two dangers: creating unaligned AI systems that pose a threat to humanity and mistreating AI systems that merit moral consideration in their own right. This paper argues these two dangers interact and that if we create AI systems that merit moral consideration, simultaneously avoiding ...
Adam Bradley, Bradford Saad
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Recognizing Our Gifts: Re-reading Receptive Ecumenism with Risto Saarinen

This chapter engages Risto Saarinien’s work on recognition and gift in order to look afresh at some aspects of Receptive Ecumenism, and to apply this to the contemporary momentum in the Catholic Church for greater synodality.
Ryan, Gregory A.
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Must Longtermists Wish Us All Dead? A Quadrilemma

Journal of Applied Philosophy, Volume 43, Issue 5, Page 1233-1255, November 2026.
ABSTRACT Longtermists assign great moral importance to making the long‐term future as good as possible, especially by ensuring the survival of humanity. We argue, to the contrary, that on assumptions that are plausible, conservative, or shared by leading longtermists, human extinction will likely augment total utility among human and non‐human animals ...
Nir Eyal, Bastian Steuwer, Shai Meiri
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The role of religious diversity in social progress. [PDF]

Ethnicities, 2022
Davie G.
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