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Religious naturalism and its near neighbors:some live options
, 2018 Any naturalism worthy of serious consideration involves that one accepts the scientific approach to reality as informative about the way things are. But ‘science-inspired naturalism’ does not deliver answers to questions about the ultimate structure of ...
Drees, W.B.; id_orcid
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Nature's Complexity Alive: Farewell to Several Unificatory Cosmological Arguments for Monism
Noûs, EarlyView.ABSTRACT Throughout history, numerous thinkers have claimed that monism—in the form of priority monism, existence monism, monotheistic monism, or versions that posit an extra‐cosmic ultimate being—theoretically surpasses pluralism, above all by positing a unified universe.
Lok‐Chi Chan
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Being Biased and Knowing How to Reason
Noûs, EarlyView.ABSTRACT This essay explains how reasoning is action and not reflex. It then uses that theory to explain one form of knowing how to reason. Reasoning is thinking biased by knowledge. Drawing on Louise Antony's emphasis on bias as critical for dealing with underdetermination in induction, I show that underdetermination confronts all forms of reasoning ...
Wayne Wu
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The Pro‐Office Mindset. Anticorruption Beyond Legal Instruments
Journal of Social Philosophy, EarlyView.
Emanuela Ceva, Patrizia Pedrini
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Radical dystopia: The comic modernism of George Orwell's Nineteen Eighty‐Four
Orbis Litterarum, EarlyView.Abstract The present essay turns the received view of George Orwell's Nineteen Eighty‐Four on its head, arguing that Orwell's dystopian classic mobilizes the modernist techniques of T. S. Eliot's The Waste Land to lampoon the ideological fatalism of Eliot and other cultural conservatives.
Magnus Ullén
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ENGLISH-INTERPRETIVE APPROACH TO SYED AHMED'S NATURALISM IN RELATION TO ISLAMIC MODERN EDUCATION
دی اسکالرThe article aims to discuss some of the key components of Syed Ahmed's naturalism as a framework for understanding human growth, especially in the area of education within the framework of revealed text.
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Simulations All the Way Up! An Atheist's Response to the Fine‐Tuning Argument
Analytic Philosophy, EarlyView.ABSTRACT So the Fine‐tuning Argument goes, because it is so unlikely for the physical constants of the laws of nature to have taken the values that they in fact take, we should significantly raise our credence that God exists. Simulation Arguments argue that our world might be (or, in stronger versions, that it probably is) a mere computer simulation ...
Nikk Effingham
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Naturalism and our knowledge of reality : testing religious truth-claims
, 2012 Philosophical naturalism is taken to be the preferred and reigning epistemology and metaphysics that underwrites many ideas and knowledge claims. But what if we cannot know reality on that basis?
Smith, R. Scott
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The Problem of Psychonomic Harmony
Philosophy and Phenomenological Research, EarlyView.ABSTRACT The problem of nomological harmony is the problem of explaining why the laws of nature match or apply to the states of the universe in a way that results in temporal evolution. The problem of psychophysical harmony is the problem of explaining why phenomenal states are paired with physical states and other phenomenal states in surprisingly ...
Joseph C. Schmid
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Henri Michaux's program for the psychedelic humanities. [PDF]
Front Psychol, 2023 Davis O.
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