Howard W. Odum, the founder of Social Forces (SF), felt strongly that religion was a significant social force in need better understanding. This is readily apparent number pages devoted to topic journal’s first few issues. From start, Odum recognized risks and challenges trying foster balanced objective discussions religious matters. In his set “Editorial Notes,” he exhorts, Shall we always be ...

Indian Snake-poisons, their Nature and Effects By A. J. YVali, m. d. f Dond.), Fellow of the Royal College of Surgeons of England ; of the Medical Staff H. At.'s Indian Army* This work, which is dedicated to Sir Joseph Fayrer, is in many respects a distinct advance upon our knowledge of snake-poisons, and especially so in those chapters in which the characteristic physiological effects of the v...

Bioethics initially emerged from theological thinking, as part of the consistent development of the defense of the beliefs of the movement when faced with the challenges of the social progressivism of techno-scientific expansion and the cultural secularization of the West. As a result of this process, liberal social norms and legislation have emerged in many Western nations, including those tha...

It is well established that religiosity correlates inversely with intelligence. A prominent hypothesis states that this correlation reflects behavioral biases toward intuitive problem solving, which causes errors when intuition conflicts with reasoning. We tested predictions of this hypothesis by analyzing data from two large-scale Internet-cohort studies (combined N = 63,235). We report that a...

admits that it cannot be demonstrated or otherwise justified. But, he maintains, such justification is not necessary. “I do not know how WE know that things are as they are because they were as they were. But WE do know it.” The last five authors quoted are at one in asserting an alleged law of causation which turns out to be simply Kant’s mule. None of them has troubled to ask, any more than K...

While openmindedness is often cited as a paradigmatic example of an intellectual virtue, the connection between openmindedness and truth is tenuous. Several strategies for reconciling this tension are considered, and each is shown to fail; it is thus claimed that openmindedness, when intellectually virtuous, bears no interesting essential connection to truth. In the final section, the implicati...

This is a critical review of Michael Peters' book, Wittgenstein, Education and the Problem Rationality, in which I focus on following assumptions order to problematize them: Wittgenstein's supposed relativism anti-foundationalism; his status as leading representative analytic philosophy; absence mention Peter’s book publication Wittgenstein’s spelling dictionary 1926, after period he became pri...

Online social networks can be considered harbingers of modernity and are claimed to encourage individualization in religious practices. Nevertheless, minority groups, including reclusive communities, legitimize their use for communal purposes. Accordingly, emerging as dynamic third spaces identity reflections on key issues lived religion. This study examined how members a group negotiate over o...

Abstract A persistent concern for democratic theorists is the degree to which religious authority trumps authority. This often assessed using generic measures of religiosity or beliefs ill-suited task. Moreover, while religion linked dogmatism and authoritarianism, this begs question how much influence has independent psychological dispositions. We attempt add these debates with a new measure d...

This paper argues for a view described as risk-limited indulgent permissivism. term may be new to the epistemology of disagreement literature, but general position denoted has many examples. The need an domains controversial views (morals, philosophy, politics, and religion), advantages endorsing permissivism across these domains. It takes double-edge approach in articulating interpersonal beli...