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...

Abstract It is now standard in the literature on reasons and rationality to distinguish normative from motivating reasons. Two issues have dominated philosophical theorising concerning latter: (i) whether we should think of them as certain (nonfactive) psychological states agent—the dispute over Psychologism; (ii) say that agent can ϕ for reason p only if p—the Factivism. This paper first intro...

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...

Using a random sample of 383 Muslims and Christians in Lebanon and Syria, we explored the degree of public support for two distinct kinds of asymmetric violence—“fundamentalist violence” and “resistance violence”—against the United States as a function of three explanatory narratives: a clash of cultures narrative, social identity/self-categorization theory, and a counterdominance perspective. ...

This article aims to place the views of Krzysztof Bosak, Confederation’s candidate in 2020 presidential elections, multifaceted typological frameworks political thought. The analyzes show that Bosak’s are primarily fundamentalist. However, classifying non-heteronormative people as objective enemies is indicative totalitarian gnosis. cannot be classified belonging epigonic fascism cultivating in...

contemporary philosophy is replete with various theories about rationality; however, the general concept of rationality is ambiguous. through exploring into the renowned schools of epistemology and philosophy of science, richard foley finds out the purpose and perspective to be constant elements in all theories of rationality. the purpose is the entity needed or desired by the individual and ca...