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Freewill, Determinism, and the Illusion of Purpose: A Compatibilist Conception of Meaning and Purpose
Introduction It has been said that a donkey standing equidistant between identical piles of hay would result in the...
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Seeing Beginnings: Buber, Levinas, and the Original Encounter
Here and only here are we “We”. Here we are actively familiar with the cosmos through our co-operation,...
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The Machine in the Ghost?
Life-like machines are beginning to appear. During a panel discussion in the year 2000, John McCarthy, the computer science...
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The Cognitive Agent
The concept of agent has many uses in philosophical discussions. Epidemiologist assume different characteristic of agents from the ones...
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A Transdisciplinary Perspective Viewed through Anabaptist Eyes
Introduction to Theme This paper presents two claims: (1) Attachment is a universal thread that holds the fabric of...
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Wolfgang Pauli’s Journey Inward
Men go abroad to wonder at the heights of mountains, at the huge waves of the sea, at the...
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Modern Physical Cosmology and Traditional Creation Myths—Is There Any Relationship?
Section 1: Introduction More is demanded of myth than of science. A creation myth needs to provide an overall...
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Attachment to God in Christian and Muslim Communities: Foundational for Human Flourishing?
Introduction There is considerable research evidence that spirituality affects physical and psychological health (e.g. Larson & Larson, 2003). From...
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The System of Ichinen Sanzen: A Contribution to a Theory of Cognition
Henri Atlan (2000) has described as ‘intercritical’ the field in which scientific knowledge and religious understanding interact and where...
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The Living Universe
I. Is the Universe a Living System? A number of crises are puttingthe world system under enormous pressure to...