Unpacking the Multispecies Family: Predicting Pets as Family Members Using the General Social Survey
ABSTRACT The multispecies family has grown rapidly over the past 30 years in the United States. Scholarly understanding of pets as legitimate family members is increasing, but most work has been qualitative in nature. Statistical modeling of these dynamics has been bound by a lack of access to large‐scale, nationally representative datasets paywalled ...
Andrea Laurent‐Simpson
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Artificial Womb Technology Cannot End the Abortion Debate for the Prolife Catholic. [PDF]
Ramirez NM.
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Teaching Theology and Law in the Australian Secular Law School: Lessons From the Adelaide Law School
ABSTRACT The Adelaide Law School introduced Law and Religion into its suite of elective courses in 2012, the culmination of a long process of encouraging both the institution and individual faculty members to accept that this sub‐discipline, at the time already well‐recognized in the United States and Europe, properly belonged as a scholarly pursuit in
P. T. Babie
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A missed opportunity: faith leaders and the HPV vaccination effort in Addis Ababa, Ethiopia. [PDF]
Berhanu W +5 more
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Teaching New Religious Movements Historically: Distance, Empathy, and Cults in the Classroom
ABSTRACT Resistance to understanding the beliefs of modern New Religious Movements (NRMs) is well‐known to those who teach in the area. This paper builds on Eugene Gallagher's repurposing of “methodological belief” for college classes on NRMs by suggesting that scholars and teachers in the field of religious studies engage methods and content drawn ...
Douglas FitzHenry Jones
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PSR, Modal Collapse, and Open Future in Ibn Sīnā's Philosophy
ABSTRACT It has been contended that the Principle of Sufficient Reason (PSR) implies necessitarianism—that is, the view that everything occurs out of necessity. Discussing a well‐known argument for this claim developed by contemporary metaphysicians, I show that Ibn Sīnā has anticipated a counterpart of this argument, and that is precisely why he is ...
Mohammad Saleh Zarepour
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Religious Perspectives Regarding the Ethical Issues Associated With Clinical Xenotransplantation. [PDF]
Hurst DJ +13 more
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Modal Logic and Modal Metaphysics: An Avicennian Division of Labour
ABSTRACT This paper argues that Avicenna was both a necessitarian and a realist about contingency. The two aspects of his modal metaphysics are reconciled by arguing that Avicenna's modal metaphysics is founded on realism about essences: strictly speaking, an individual has no contingent properties, but a modal distinction can be made between the ...
Jari Kaukua
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Harmony, Basic Goods, and the Biopsychosocial-Spiritual Model: A Philosophical Anthropology That Can Lead to Better Healthcare. [PDF]
Lisanti CJ, Shonnard MJ.
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Review of \u3cem\u3eThe Unconditional in Human Knowledge: Four Early Essays\u3c/em\u3e by F. W. J. Schelling [PDF]
Vater, Michael
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