‘Irfâniy as Epistemology Method Sufism Based on Conscience

Conscience Wars: Complicity-Based Conscience Claims in Religion and Politics

Persons of faith are now seeking religious exemptions from laws concerning sex, reproduction, and marriage on the ground that the law makes the objector complicit in the assertedly sinful conduct of others. We term claims of this kind, which were at issue in Burwell v. Hobby Lobby Stores, complicity-based conscience claims. Complicity-based conscience claims differ in form and in social logic f...

'In good conscience': conscience-based exemptions and proper medical treatment.

Lack of clarity about the proper limits of conscientious refusal to participate in particular healthcare practices has given rise to fears that, in the absence of clear parameters, conscience-based exemptions may become increasingly widespread, leading to intolerable burdens on health professionals, patients, and institutions. Here, we identify three factors which clarify the proper scope of co...

Epistemology as Methodology

What is distinctive about my views in epistemology? One thing is that my concern with epistemology is a concern with methodology. Furthermore, I reject psychologism about logic and reject the idea that deductive rules like modus ponens are in any way rules of inference. I accept a kind of methodological conservatism and reject methodological theories that appeal to special foundations, analytic...

Words of Ecstasy in Sufism

Epistemology, Ontology, and Method: Comments on Tiberghien’s and Dreyfus’ Papers

ion starts from an initial, simple, undeveloped first form, which need not be internally and externally consistent. The development of abstraction proceeds from analysis, at the initial stage of the abstraction, to synthesis. It ends with a consistent and elaborate final form. It does not lead from concrete to abstract but from an undeveloped to a developed form of abstract in which new feature...