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Objectivity and Subjectivity in Science and Religion: Towards Basing Inter-Religious Dialogue on Rational Grounds
Is objectivity a characteristic of scientific knowledge?What is the root of the objective and public nature of science? Mathematics...
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Rene Girard and the Genealogy of Consumerism
Ask for more– the catch phrase, brought up by the campaign promoting one of the most popular drinks in...
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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,...
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Identity Politics and the Challenge of Representation
“My sociality precedes my agency.”—Judith Butler Introduction: This paper attempts to redirect, among feminists representing a variety of traditions,...
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Quantum Humanism: The Reality of the Atom and the Mind through a Dooyeweerdian Lens
Introduction This paper advances the possibility that the apparent logical fissure emergent in reductionist thought coming from orthodox science...