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Revelatory Spirituality and Science—an Oxymoron? Examining Revelatory Transcendental Discourses on Self and Personhood at the Intersections of Science, Buddhism and Christianity
Part I: The “Spirit Crisis”: “No-self” in Science We have unlearned something. We have become more modest in every...
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Implications of Interpersonal Neurobiology for a Spirituality of Compassion
A version of this essay is forthcoming in Zygon: Journal of Religion and Science. Parts of the paper were...
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A Feminist Exegesis of Non-Self: On Classical Buddhist Understanding of Personhood and Identity
Buddhism and feminism appear to be two very different strains of thought. One originated in ancient Northeast India and...
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Before Virtue: Ethics as Evolutionary Expertise
Introduction Traditional cognitive accounts of moral behavior, which draw from rational models of decision processes (Hastie & Dawes, 2001),...
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Free Will: New Directions for an Ancient Problem
1. Modernity and Free Will “There is a disputation that will continue till mankind is raised from the dead,...
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Ethics and the Quest for Wisdom
1. Ancient Wisdom, Modern Challenges The subject of this conference session is “wisdom”; and the topic provides an opportunity...
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Personhood or Non-Self: Christian and Buddhist Approaches to the Self in the Context of Modern Scientific Results
The question A basic doctrine of Buddhism is the statement that no Self exists, the doctrine of Non-Self, Anatta1....
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The Role of Imagery, Particularly Scientific Imagery, in Transdisciplinary Dialogue
As a scientist whose studies began in the arts, I have always been interested in interdisciplinary approaches to coming...
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The Structure of Selves: The Nature of Selfhood and the Schizophrenic Experience
The primary assumption of this study is that there exists a uniquely human selfhood. Consequently, the subsequent assumption, that...
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Human Becoming: Phylogeny and Ontogeny of Affective Social Behaviour
Human consciousness and uniquely human behavioural distinctives are the end products of a phylogenetic history shared with other hominids,...