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THE BLURRED LINE BETWEEN THEISTIC EVOLUTION AND INTELLIGENT DESIGN

open access: yesZygon, 2019
It is often assumed that there is a hard line between theistic evolution (TE) and intelligent design (ID). Many theistic evolutionists subscribe to the idea that God only acts through natural processes, as opposed to the ID assertion that God, at ...
doaj   +2 more sources

On the Transformative Nature of Luxury Consumption and Consumer Well‐Being: A Systematic Literature Review and Research Agenda

open access: yesPsychology &Marketing, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Consuming luxury products and services has received little systematic attention as a potential pathway to consumer well‐being, despite sporadic evidence suggesting that luxury experiences may catalyse self‐transformational processes and happiness‐related outcomes.
Solon Magrizos   +2 more
wiley   +1 more source

ONE ENCHANTED BEING: NEUROEXISTENTIALISM AND MEANING

open access: yesZygon, 2009
The Really Hard Problem: Meaning in a Material World is my attempt to explain whether and how existential meaning is possible in a material world, and how such meaning is best conceived naturalistically.
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“Natural Supernaturalism”: Carlyle’s Redemption of the Past in The French Revolution

open access: yesRevue LISA, 2009
Le déclin de la réputation de Carlyle en tant qu’historien est d’autant plus ironique que c’est à lui, plus qu’à tout autre penseur victorien, que l’on doit la création et la défense de la relation au passé propre aux Romantiques.
David R. Sorensen
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Supernature

open access: yes, 2023
Il Selvario è una raccolta di parole urticanti, una guida per orientarsi nei lemmi della contemporaneità, una selva ulteriore entro la quale perdersi, trovarsi, sbranarsi. Il volume restituisce gli esiti di una call for paper bandita nell’ambito del Prin «SYLVA» dall’unità di ricerca dell’Università degli Studi di Genova.
openaire   +1 more source

God's Presence in the Aisle: How God Salience Encourages Preference for Ultra‐Processed Foods

open access: yesPsychology &Marketing, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT God‐related cues are pervasive in consumers' daily lives, yet little research has examined how God salience shapes consumer food choices. Drawing on compensatory control theory and the literature on symbolic healing, we present findings from six studies, including a field experiment, demonstrating that high (vs.
Ali Gohary, Hean Tat Keh
wiley   +1 more source

Die noodsaaklikheid van habitat in ons definisie van menswees: Op soek na ’n eko-teologiese verstaan van menslike lewe

open access: yesHTS Teologiese Studies/Theological Studies, 2012
The indispensability of habitat in our definition of human personhood: In search of an eco-theological understanding of human life. The endeavour of this article is to arrive at a theological responsible conception of life.
Johan Buitendag
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Between Science and Supernaturalism: Mimesis and the Uncanny in Nineteenth-Century Theatre and Culture

open access: yes19, 2017
Curiously placed between the realms of science and supernaturalism, the phenomenon of the uncanny double has a distinctive presence in both. Another kind of duality is at issue in the imagined presence of the doppelgänger, as a figure in both physical ...
Jane Goodall
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From talking tools to metahumans: social interaction, semiotic skill, and the authority of AI chatbots Des outils parlants aux métahumains : interactions sociales, compétences sémiotiques et autorité des robots conversationnels

open access: yesJournal of the Royal Anthropological Institute, EarlyView.
What does it take to turn a tool into a talking tool and that into an ultimate authority? Generative artificial intelligence (GenAI) in its diverse forms, such as large language models (LLMs), is celebrated as a useful tool. But LLM‐based conversational agents, or chatbots, the software applications through which ordinary users are likely to engage ...
Webb Keane
wiley   +1 more source

Naturalism Need Not Be “Made Safe”: A Response to William Rottschaefer's Misunderstandings

open access: yesZygon, 2001
In this article, I respond to William Rottschaefer's analysis of my writings on religion and science, especially my Religion, Science and Naturalism (1996).
doaj   +2 more sources

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