Loving God as a Devoted Servant

Living Zen, Loving God (review)

The Research Chemist, Mankind's Devoted and Indispensable Servant.

"TAKE interest, I implore you, in those sacred dwellings which one designates by the expressive term Laboratories. Demand that they be multiplied, that they be adorned. These are the temples of the future-temples of wellbeing and of happiness. There it is that humanity grows greater, stronger, better." So spoke the immortal Pasteur, and I tender my warmest felicitations and congratulations to T...

Book Review: "Loving Literature. A Cultural History"

It is widely acknowledged that emotion is deeply embedded in literary criticism. Even when we aspire to scientific analysis and objectivity, we assume that we share a love of literature. Loving Literature is a deep and fascinating exploration of this important assumption. Literary critics and professors of literature are expected not only to know but also to love their work. In the case of prof...

Servant Leadership: A Worldview Perspective

The concept of worldview is introduced and explored as a framework for creating a philosophical foundation for servant leadership. The author uses the work of Schaeffer (1968), Pearcey (2004), Murphy and Ellis (1996), and MacIntyre (1984, 1988) to demonstrate the fragmented nature of modern philosophic and scientific traditions, how this affects ethics and morality, and how this fragmentation c...

God would be a costly accident: Supernatural beliefs as adaptive

I take up the challenge of why false beliefs are better than “cautious action policies” (target article, sect. 9) in navigating adaptive problems with asymmetric errors. I then suggest that there are interactions between supernatural beliefs, self-deception, and positive illusions, rendering elements of all such misbeliefs adaptive. Finally, I argue that supernatural beliefs cannot be rejected ...