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Altruism in death: Attitudes to body and organ donation in Australian students

open access: yesAnatomical Sciences Education, Volume 16, Issue 1, Page 27-46, January/February 2023., 2023
Abstract Health education, research, and training rely on the altruistic act of body donation for the supply of cadavers. Organ transplantation and research rely on donated organs. Supply of both is limited, with further restrictions in Australia due to requirements for a next‐of‐kin agreement to donation, irrespective of the deceased's pre‐death ...
Rebekah A. Jenkin   +2 more
wiley   +1 more source

Artificial Intelligences: A Bridge Toward Diverse Intelligence and Humanity's Future

open access: yesAdvanced Intelligent Systems, EarlyView.
Many discussions of artificial intelligence fail to address deeper questions being raised by advances in developmental biology, neuroscience, bioengineering, and philosophy of mind. Novel beings, including technologically and biologically augmented humans, engineered life forms, hybrots, and others, require tools of the emerging field of diverse ...
Michael Levin
wiley   +1 more source

Religious Experience, Pragmatic Encroachment, and Justified Belief in God

open access: yesOpen Theology, 2020
The secondary literature on religious epistemology has focused extensively on whether religious experience can provide evidence for God’s existence. In this article, I suppose that religious experience can do this, but I consider whether it can provide ...
Gillham Alex R
doaj   +1 more source

Teaching mathematics with a different philosophy. Part 2: Calculus without Limits [PDF]

open access: yesScience and Culture, 77 (2011) (7-8) pp. 280-86, 2013
The example of the calculus is used to explain how simple, practical math was made enormously complex by imposing on it the Western religiously-colored notion of mathematics as "perfect". We describe a pedagogical experiment to make math easy by teaching "calculus without limits" using the new realistic philosophy of zeroism, different from Platonic ...
arxiv  

Religious Experience

open access: yesForum Philosophicum, 2011
It is thought that Schleiermacher used religious experience as a new kind of argument to safeguard Christian faith when he was faced with the failure of traditional arguments for the existence of God. This paper argues that such a view does not do justice to the newness of his approach in constructing a propaedeutic to Christian theology. It is further
openaire   +2 more sources

Religion and Terrorism: Evidence from Ramadan Fasting [PDF]

open access: yesarXiv, 2018
We study the effect of religion and intense religious experiences on terrorism by focusing on one of the five pillars of Islam: Ramadan fasting. For identification, we exploit two facts: First, daily fasting from dawn to sunset during Ramadan is considered mandatory for most Muslims. Second, the Islamic calendar is not synchronized with the solar cycle.
arxiv  

The concept of «religious experience» in the philosophical and theological heritage of V. S. Solovyov

open access: yesИнтеллект. Инновации. Инвестиции
The article analyzes the genesis and transformation of the concept of «religious experience» in the philosophical and theological heritage of V. S. Solovyov.
O. M. Farkhitdinova, D. M. Latyshev
doaj   +1 more source

The Myth of Religious Experience Revisited

open access: yesOpen Theology, 2017
This article replies to Manuel Fasko’s “The Demystification of Nick Zangwill’s ‘Myth of Religious Experience’” (2017), showing how author’s argument against the possibility of religious experience presented in “The Myth of Religious Experience” (2004 ...
Zangwill Nick
doaj   +1 more source

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