Abstract Pascal famously argued that practical reasoning should lead people to try form within themselves a commitment religious practice and obedience, based upon belief in God. I propose take less ambitious argument, which call the Sensible Argument, use it present The Puzzle. argue there is huge puzzle here, about radical dissonance between beliefs practices of many purportedly religious. Th...

this paper compares the value relevance of book value and dividends versus book value and reported earnings. the main purpose of this study explains which of dividends, book value and earnings are more value relevance. thus, we have examined 98 firms of tehran stock exchange over a period 1377-1382. our methodology of examining the information content of various income statement and balance she...

Narrow self-interest is often used as a simplifying assumption when studying people making decisions in social contexts. Nonetheless, people exhibit a wide range of different motivations when choosing unilaterally among interdependent outcomes. Measuring the magnitude of the concern people have for others, sometimes called Social Value Orientation (SVO), has been an interest of many social scie...

if we discover an adequate naturalistic explanation for religious experience, will it diminish its evidentiary value? in response to this question, many thinkers such as c.d. broad, richard swinburne and william wainwright argue that an adequate naturalistic explanation cannot diminish religious experience evidentiary value unless it can be demonstrated that there is no god. in contrary to this...

University presidents have become a special group worth studying. With the implementation of college education reform, some topics are discussed extensively such as the ideals, values, missions and obligations of the university. As a result, the special group closely related to the university’s fate, university presidents, deserves a profound exploration. In this article, the germ of some ideas...