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Hierarchical Model of Religious Knowledge [PDF]

open access: yesحکمت اسرا, 2011
The dichotomy between the natural and human sciences is one of the most established dichotomies in Western thought. This dichotomy, as exemplified in Western philosophy, has been very consequential.
Aliriza Qaiminia
doaj  

Logical Positivism and Carnap's Confirmability on the Meaningfulness of Religious Language [PDF]

open access: yes, 2018
Due to their acceptance of the verifiability principle, the only way left for logical positivists to argue for the meaningfulness of religious language was to accept some sort of emotivistic conception of it or to reduce it to the description of ...
Oya, Alberto
core  

Where the conflict really lies: Plantinga, the challenge of evil, and religious naturalism [PDF]

open access: yes, 2014
In this paper I argue that, although Alvin Plantinga’s Felix Culpa theodicy appears on only two pages of 'Where the Conflict Really Lies: Science, Religion and Naturalism' (2011), it is of pivotal importance for the book as a whole. Plantinga argues that
Burns, Elizabeth
core   +1 more source

Introduction: Towards a linguistic anthropology of AI Introduction : vers une anthropologie linguistique de l'IA

open access: yesJournal of the Royal Anthropological Institute, EarlyView.
This essay introduces the themed cluster of articles, ‘Towards a linguistic anthropology of AI’. The advent of artificial intelligence (AI), especially in large language models capable of producing coherent discourse mimicking conversational interaction, is exerting unprecedented pressure on prevailing concepts of language, personhood, and the human ...
Webb Keane, Constantine V. Nakassis
wiley   +1 more source

Worldviews and Science

open access: yesZygon
The increasing number of individuals who lack religious faith or self-identify as nonreligious in certain parts of the world necessitates a shift in the science–religion dialogue and a change of some key categories and notions.
Mikael Stenmark
doaj   +2 more sources

How to Make Naturalism Safe for Supernaturalism: An Evaluation of Willem Drees's Supernaturalistic Naturalism

open access: yesZygon, 2001
Naturalism is often considered to be antithetical to theology and genuine religion. However, in a series of recent books and articles, Willem Drees has proposed a scientifically informed naturalistic account of religion, which, he contends, is not only ...
doaj   +2 more sources

The Political Economy of Wellness: Commercial Determinants of a Burgeoning Industry

open access: yesThe Milbank Quarterly, EarlyView.
Policy Points Wellness has grown into a multi‐trillion‐dollar industry encompassing a multitude of products and practices that affect health and well‐being. Applying a lens of commercial determinants of health to wellness is useful to examine its intersection with systems of capital production, corporate interests, and neoliberal norms of personal ...
NANCY KARREMAN   +3 more
wiley   +1 more source

Investigating Claims of Eroticism in Images of the Annunciation

open access: yesForum, 2012
The usefulness of religious images to the Christian Church in late-medieval Europe had long been appreciated, but their function was most clearly expressed from the time of Thomas Aquinas (1225-74) onwards.
Frank Ferrie
doaj   +3 more sources

SPIRITUALITY FOR NATURALISTS

open access: yesZygon, 2012
The views of eleven writers who develop a naturalized spirituality, from Baruch Spinoza and George Santayana to Sam Harris, André Comte‐Sponville, Ursula Goodenough, and Sharon Welch and others are presented.
doaj   +2 more sources

Religious Beliefs and Philosophical Views: A Qualitative Study [PDF]

open access: yes, 2018
Philosophy of religion is often regarded as a philosophical discipline in which irrelevant influences, such as upbringing and education, play a pernicious role.
De Cruz, Helen
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