Religious Concepts About Historical Development Process

Historical development and basic concepts

Embryonic development as a quasi-historical process.

This essay explores the nature of embryonic development in contrast to other kinds of processes. Anhistorical processes are highly reproducible and are therefore subject to standard scientific analysis. Such analyses yield results that may well apply universally. Euhistorical processes are non-reproducible. Therefore they are not subject to standard scientific analysis, but are investigated pri...

Religious Concepts as Necessary Components of the Adaptive Religious System

The majority view of cognitive scientists of religion holds that religious concepts are merely byproducts of evolved minds. However, religious concepts exhibit patterned socioecological variation, suggesting that they may be responsive to local selective pressures. Concepts worthy of religious devotion are intriguing, emotion-triggering, and framed in such a way that makes them relevant to one’...

Process Modelling Goals: Concepts, Structure and Development

Process modelling is and should be goal-oriented. The formal statement of modelling goals in current process modelling practice is either forgotten, somehow considered implicitly, or vaguely remembered at some later point in the model building cycle. This lack of explicit goal statement greatly affects the focus, task efficiency, model parsimony and the termination of the modelling cycle, espec...

Consequentialism about Historical Authenticity