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Introduction The apparent conflict between science and religion is often viewed and argued with respect to the existence of...

Introduction The creation of a new philosophical system is a staggeringly difficult task, fraught with myriad dangers, pitfalls, and...

Introduction: Spinoza’s early modern naturalism The life of Dutch Jewish philosopher Baruch Spinoza spanned the mid-17th century, a time...

I wish to say, just at the beginning, that we are very convinced of the great relevance of Leonardo...

Part I: The “Spirit Crisis”: “No-self” in Science We have unlearned something. We have become more modest in every...

A version of this essay is forthcoming in Zygon: Journal of Religion and Science. Parts of the paper were...

Buddhism and feminism appear to be two very different strains of thought. One originated in ancient Northeast India and...

Introduction Traditional cognitive accounts of moral behavior, which draw from rational models of decision processes (Hastie & Dawes, 2001),...

1. Modernity and Free Will “There is a disputation that will continue till mankind is raised from the dead,...

1. Ancient Wisdom, Modern Challenges The subject of this conference session is “wisdom”; and the topic provides an oppor­tunity...