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Extended Memotype: On Advice, Part 1
People who give advice are annoying, kind, nosy, generous, pushy, helpful, proud, selfless, self-serving, and domineering. My advice is...
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More on Religious Faith
As stated in the last essay, religious faith is an essential element in any religious context. Usually, but not...
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The Only Thing Worse Than Being Talked About
Ted Honderich and Colin McGinn, two well-known academic philosophers*, are engaged in a meaningless public feud, bringing further “glory”...
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Ayaan Hirsi Ali and Tariq Ramadan again
New Perspectives Quarterly offers a point-counterpoint with Ayaan Hirsi Ali and Tariq Ramadan on recent examples of “Islamic justice”...
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God Rest Ye, Village Atheists
Sam Harris is taking time off from saying superficial (but highly lucrative) things about religion to saying less lucrative...
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Emergence Theism’ as a Pantheistic Thread Within the Traditional Theism: Seeking for a God-World Unity
Transdisciplinarity as wisdom? The notion of transdisciplinarity contains both diversity and unification. It implies the diversity of different scientific...
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Mytho-Poetic Wisdom as Origins of Self-knowledge—Part 1
Vico insists throughout his opus that in order for Man to understand himself and avoid the danger of scientific...
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Three Types of Faith
Faith may be looked upon as the implicit trust one places in a person, thing, or idea, often without...
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Doubt in Philosophy and in Science
Doubt has philosophical and as well as scientific relevance. Since ancient times, keen minds have argued for a skeptical...
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Cocky: Self-certainty made easy
Why does it take 6 million sperm to fertilize an egg? Because none of them will stop to ask...