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Simulations All the Way Up! An Atheist's Response to the Fine‐Tuning Argument

open access: yesAnalytic 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
wiley   +1 more source

The modern-day “Rest Cure”: “The yellow Wallpaper” and underrepresentation in clinical research

open access: yesPhilosophy, Ethics, and Humanities in Medicine
Gothic literature—a genre brimming with madness, supernaturalism, and psychological terror—offers innumerable case studies potentially representing how psychiatric patients perceive their treatment from healthcare professionals.
Camille Francesca Villar
doaj   +1 more source

The Supernatural Ecstasy in the “Supernatural Songs”

open access: yesThe Yeats Journal of Korea, 2007
Joon Seog Ko, Ho Young Chung
openaire   +1 more source

A Second‐Order Moral Twin‐Earth

open access: yesRatio, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT How to understand metaphysical disputes is a disputed matter. Within this broader dispute, deflationist approaches read some of the traditional metaphysical debates as having metalinguistic negotiations at their roots. That is, some metaphysical disagreements are read as speakers commending each other to use some concepts over others ...
Pyro Suarez
wiley   +1 more source

‘Chrystalline Talk’: Thomas Browne's Poetics of Concretion and Mineral Plain Style

open access: yesRenaissance Studies, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT This article charts the figuration, both material and rhetorical, of mineral bodies in early modern natural philosophy, paying particular attention to the second book of Thomas Browne's Pseudodoxia Epidemica (1646). It argues that concretions (stony calculi and crystals formed through the aggregation of physical matter) make manifest a mineral
Jess Dunmore
wiley   +1 more source

The Role of Flexibility in the Formation and Maintenance of Extreme Beliefs: A Narrative Scoping Review

open access: yesScandinavian Journal of Psychology, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT There is growing interest in the role of cognitive flexibility in the development of politically motivated violence and a willingness to self‐sacrifice. However, the construct of flexibility has been applied in multiple ways across disciplines, resulting in conceptual ambiguity and methodological challenges.
Sebastian Deverson   +2 more
wiley   +1 more source

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