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Wagering on Pragmatic Encroachment [PDF]

, 2017
Lately, there has been an explosion of literature exploring the the relationship between one’s practical situation and one’s knowledge. Some involved in this discussion have suggested that facts about a person’s practical situation might affect whether ...
Eaton, Daniel, Pickavance, Timothy
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A Study of the Relationship between Religion and Morality from Sam Harris's Perspective [PDF]

پژوهشنامه فلسفه دین, 2023
A leading figure of "new atheism", Sam Harris, maintains that religion and morality are in conflict. He, despite what religious believers generally think, does not take religion to be a basis for morality, instead, he believes that religion devastates ...
Morteza Faghihi Fazel, Yousef Daneshvar Nilo   +1 more
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Finitude, temporality and the criticism of religion in Martin Hägglund’s This Life: Why Mortality Makes Us Free (2019)

HTS Teologiese Studies/Theological Studies, 2020
Based on two presentations during a February 2020 South African academic visit at the University of Pretoria and the University of Johannesburg, in this contribution, the authors of this article engage with one of the bestselling recent volumes in ...
David Biernot, Christoffel Lombaard
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State Policies and The Increasing Number of Atheism in The Middle East: A Case Study of Saudi and Turkey

CMES (Center of Middle Eastern Studies), 2022
This study aims to see the correlation between state policies and the increasing number of atheism in Turkey and Saudi Arabia. These two countries were chosen because they represent two countries with a majority Muslim population that apply Islamic law ...
Yuangga Kurnia Yahya
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The Problem of God’s Existence: In Defence of Skepticism [PDF]

, 2015
There are four main positions in the argument about whether God exists: atheism, theism, agnosticism, and scepticism. From an epistemological standpoint, scepticism is the most rational; even if a decisive argument which would settle the debate has not ...
Ziemiński, Ireneusz
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Tadeusz Kotarbiński on God and Religion [PDF]

, 2016
The aim of the paper is the presentation of the main reasons of Tadeusz Kotarbiński’s atheism and an interpretation of his position in terms of the conceptual apparatus used in contemporary philosophical debate on atheism.
Łukasiewicz, Dariusz
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New Atheism and ‘Evil’ of Religions: The Call of Pastoral Theology for Building New Apologetics

Godišnjak, 2015
In this paper, the author explores the New Atheism movement in the West and con-temporary Western apologetics. The goal of such research is to present the apologetics as a valid answer of the Church to modern science and atheistic conclusions based on it.
Vedran Golijanin
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Vyprávění mezi empatií a vraždou Ian McEwan a jeho román Pokání [PDF]

Svět Literatury, 2021
While the human capacity of storytelling constitutes an important meta-textual motif in several of McEwan’s novels, Atonement (2001) is his prominent story about storytelling and its moral value.
Jakub Čapek
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From Atheism to Transhumanism. A Critical Look [PDF]

Studia Gilsoniana
In this research paper I focus on the question of the relationship between atheism and transhumanism. I expose the well-known thesis whereby atheism is a property of Western culture.
Jarosław Jagiełło
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New Atheism and the Criticism of Islam

Temenos
One of the ideas in the debates concerning anti-Islamic activities is that atheists, especially prominent celebrity atheists – commonly known as ‘New Atheists’ – have provided support and justification for anti-Islamic attitudes and activities.
Teemu Taira
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