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Kant on Bullshit Jobs—Mere Means and True Means

Journal of Social Philosophy, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Following David Graeber's Bullshit Jobs, there has recently been academic and public discussion about useless work. Immanuel Kant maintains that we ought to be means for others and that there is a duty to be useful. Graeber and Kant are both concerned with a form of harm often overlooked in contemporary ethics and political philosophy, namely,
Martin Sticker
wiley   +1 more source

Religio‐Racial Lines, Intimate Ties: Christian–Muslim Couples, Birth Rituals, and the Bounds of Belonging

Journal for the Scientific Study of Religion, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Building on scholarship that conceptualizes race and religion as co‐constitutive forces within a “race‐religion constellation,” this article explores how this entanglement—profoundly infused and structured by secularity—is lived and negotiated in everyday life.
Deniz Aktaş
wiley   +1 more source

Practice as research as a decolonial praxis: Yoruba culture retrieval. [PDF]

Front Sociol
Rose L.
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Chun Chen: the "practices" and "philosophy" of a surgeon. [PDF]

J Thorac Dis, 2018
Zhang K.
europepmc   +1 more source

Ambiguous Boundaries of Religious Belief, Behavior, and Belonging in Japan: A Descriptive Analysis of Plural and Cultural Religiosity

Journal for the Scientific Study of Religion, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT This research note analyzes the ambiguous boundaries of religious identity, belief, and ritual behavior in Japan, drawing on data from a nationally representative postal survey conducted in 2024 (N = 3947). The findings reveal widespread participation in Buddhist and Shinto rituals even among individuals who identify as nonreligious or atheist,
Koki Shimizu, Yoshihide Sakurai
wiley   +1 more source

Cultural practices, oral health service utilisation and oral health policy and guidelines development in Africa: insights from the yorùbá ethnic group. [PDF]

Front Oral Health
Foláyan MO, Bernard OT, Titus OS, Alade O, Aliyu TK, Bhayat A, Ndembi N, Fasiku G, El Tantawi M.   +8 more
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Friendly Fire: Did Margaret Macdonald Contribute to Susan Stebbing's Exclusion from the History of Analytic Philosophy?

Metaphilosophy, EarlyView.
Abstract This paper presents the case of Margaret Macdonald's (1903–1956) posthumous treatment of Susan Stebbing (1885–1943). After Stebbing's death, Macdonald—her Ph.D. student and collaborator—wrote an early history of analytic philosophy in which Stebbing's work is credited to Bertrand Russell (specifically, her account of ‘directional analysis ...
Peter West
wiley   +1 more source

Contrasting a Cassian-Merton model of mystical prayer with moments of Big-C creativity in contemporary music. [PDF]

Front Psychol
Priilaid D, Callaghan C.
europepmc   +1 more source

Can music serve as a "cultural immunogen"? An explorative study. [PDF]

Int J Qual Stud Health Well-being, 2013
Ruud E.
europepmc   +1 more source

Agnosticism about artificial consciousness

Mind &Language, EarlyView.
Could an AI have conscious experiences? Answers to this question should be based not on intuition, dogma or speculation but on solid scientific evidence. However, I argue such evidence is hard to come by and that the only justifiable stance is agnosticism.
Tom McClelland
wiley   +1 more source