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Providing Meaning to the Human Experience in Spite of Epistemic Distance
As human beings we are living in a world and are subject to a milieu of cultural, institutional, linguistic...
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The Crisis of Personhood: Why We Need to Broaden Our View
Introduction This paper does not deal with the epistemological theory of reductionism itself. Rather, it asks for the ethical...
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Peaceful Co-Existence of Various Cultures and Religions: An Islamic Perspective with Special Reference to Spain
Mankind is yearning for global peace. During the twentieth century a number of international treatises were signed declaring war...
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Understanding Levels: Redefining Science in an Emergentist World View
An emergentist world view sets certain challenges to our notion of science and of the kinds of explanations of...
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The Singularity of Self in the Later Foucault: Reconsidering the End(s) of Poststructuralist Thought
Introduction Recent years have seen influential ‘left’ theorists such as Alain Badiou and Slavoj ﾎiﾞek1 join with earlier ‘right’...
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Personhood, Logos and Artificial Intelligence
Y a-t-il un homme si stupide qui n’invente au moins quelque signe pour se faire entendre? Y a-t-il une...
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Getting Scientific With Religion: A Darwinian Solution . . . Or Not?
The true value of a human being is determined primarily by the measure and the sense in which he...
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Nonreductive Physicalism and Free Will
1 Introduction First I wish to extend my thanks to the Metanexus Institute for planning this conference, for locating...
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The Idea of Levels of Reality and its Relevance for Non-Reduction and Personhood
1. Introduction – Problems of terminology The words “reduction” and “reductionism” are extremely ambiguous. Different authors use different meanings...
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From the Total Gift of Self to a New Relational View of Reality; From a Mystical Insight to the Foundations of Mathematics: A Transdisciplinary Approach
The paper that we present is the fruit of the efforts of an interdisciplinary team of mathematicians: interdisciplinary within...