The aim of this paper is to demonstrate how a general metaphysical framework can be fruitfully integrated with contemporary fundamental physics to help advance our understanding of quantum ontology. The basic idea is that metaphysics concerns fundamental reality and how fundamental reality is related to reality. If we accept that fundamental reality includes fundamental physics, then the invest...

I sketch a philosophical program called ‘Empirical Fundamentalism,’ whose signature feature is the extensive use of a distinction between fundamental and derivative reality. Within the framework of Empirical Fundamentalism, derivative reality is treated as an abstraction from fundamental reality. I show how one can understand reduction and supervenience in terms of abstraction, and then I apply...

This paper interrogates multiculturalism in The Reluctant Fundamentalist by Mohsin Hamid. Multiculturalism is a technique which author use to tell their stories. When analyzing novel, it important identify this technique. It used order shed light on the ways they function story. Hamid, an emerging novelist of Pakistan has given new identity genre Pakistani English Writing through his popular no...

The emergence and distribution of beliefs about the origins of species is investigated in Christian fundamentalist and nonfundamentalist school communities, with participants matched by age, educational level, and locale. Children (n = 185) and mothers (n = 92) were questioned about animate, inanimate, and artifact origins, and children were asked about their interests and natural-history knowl...

This article gives an overview of 4 important lacunae in political liberalism and identifies, in a preliminary fashion, some trends in the literature that can come in for support in filling these blind spots, which prevent political liberalism from a correct assessment of the diverse nature of religious claims. Political liberalism operates with implicit assumptions about religious actors being...