This paper explores the notion of hospitality and faith in Derrida Kierkegaard. The aim is to trace topological core existence relation an ongoing debate contemporary continental philosophy religion about khôra. shows how khôral traces are at work Kierkegaard’s thinking proximity love. claim is, that Kierkegaard emphasizes, not a hostility but vulnerability what I coin love – vibrating space be...

This paper summarizes theoretical perspectives from psychology supportive of a healing effect of faith. First, faith is defined as a congruence of belief, trust, and obedience in relation to God or the divine. Second, evidence for a faith-healing association is presented, empirically and in theory. To exemplify religiously sanctioned affirmation of such a connection, selected passages are cited...

SYNOPSIS This report seeks to inform policy makers on the nature and the merit of the arguments for and against the concerns associated with a potential technological singularity. Part I describes the lessons learned from our investigation of the subject, separating the arguments of merit from the fallacies and misconceptions that confuse the debate and undermine its rational resolution.

What explains the persistence of certain debates in corporate law? Many fundamental questions remain unresolved despite dozens of years of research, countless conferences, and innumerable studies, both theoretical and, more recently, empirical. This is puzzling because one would expect time and evidence to move us toward a resolution of debates about what is the most efficient way of doing some...

this study examined the relation between religious faith and gratitude variables with the severity of mental disorders symptoms. participants were 300 students of shiraz university who were selected via cluster random sampling method. measures were islamic – iranian gratitude, religious faith, and scl-90 questionnaires. the data were analyzed using descriptive and multiple regression methods. t...

This essay addresses the methodology of philosophy of science and illustrates how formal and empirical methods can be fruitfully combined. Special emphasis is given to the application of experimental methods to confirmation theory and to recent work on the conjunction fallacy, a key topic in the rationality debate arising from research in cognitive psychology. Several other issue can be studied...

The relationship between ethnic and faith communities in the United States and domestic forces relating to a converging and diverging social contract on the one hand, and US foreign, security and military policies in national, regional and global contexts on the other hand, constitutes the key focus of this paper and the ongoing research upon which it is based. Theories related to American ethn...