son and world, scientist and fact, such that one assumes that fish exist a priori and independent of the scientist’s investigation. Organisms, however, shape their worlds as their worlds reciprocally shape them (Lewontin, 2000). Thus, the scientist who clears land on his or her property for a new tennis court will create the circumstances of a world lacking fish as facts for discovery. Cacioppo...

Because of confusion between science and scientism, many people react negatively to the idea of scientific investigation of near-death experiences (NDEs), but genuine science can contribute a great deal to understanding NDEs and helping experiencers integrate their experiences with everyday life. After noting how scientific investigation of certain parapsychological phenomena has established a ...

Hard on the heels of evidence-based medicine (EBM) comes evidence-based policy and practice (EBPP). At all levels in healthcare systems there is a hunger for better knowledge to inform policy and practice. Is this yet another of the fashions and fads that continually beset the National Health Service, or does EBPP mark a development that could fundamentally change the way in which health policy...

ix). This is a bold claim in a day in which the conventional wisdom dictates that theology and science are two mutually irrelevant disciplines, whose respective findings have no implications for those of the other. As one who has tried to cross the line from the other direction, I can only agree with Davies, though perhaps for different reasons, that no serious religious thinker can ignore the ...

In the context of ensuring an effective strategy for sustainable development, it is necessary to consider that modern education mainly focused on theoretical type scientific knowledge, natural and engineering-technological models thinking. At same time, theory pedagogy constantly debated criticized by scientism. It a term doesn’t exist in European countries - humanitarian or humanistic technolo...

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the two discourses with a focus on reza davari ardekani and abdolkarim soroush, were formed in iran’s society. soroush’s discourse, with religious interests influenced by islamic sources, poper’s philosophy of science, logic and epistemological accuracies of analytical philosophy and consciously liberalism, is looking for compatibility with modernity. the second discourse on reza davari ardakan...

Purpose – The governance of the relationship between humans and the biophysical world has been based on a paradigm characterized by dualistic thinking and scientism. This has led us to the Anthropocene. The purpose of this paper is to reframe human-biosphere governance in terms of “cyber-systemics”, a neologism that is useful, we argue, not only for breaking out of this dualistic paradigm in hu...