I argue that God’s holiness as conceived in Hebrew Scripture grounds human obligations to obey divine commands. To disobey the commands of a holy God would disrespect basic good, which we have decisive reason avoid doing. may be somewhat obscure property––though propose transcendence and perfect morality necessary conditions––but His omniscience guarantee He not command beings do things ground ...

For centuries the speculations on man's mental functioning posed a great challenge for the scholars in various disciplines such as philosophy, psychology, sociocultural studies, education, ethnolinguistics, discourse analysis, literary criticism. Researchers have been pondering over the ticklish question: is it the mind making the human society, or is it the society that shapes up the human min...

The philosopher Charles Sanders Peirce (see [1] for further details) distinguished three types of logical inference: deduction, induction and abduction. Deduction is a form of explicative inference; the conclusion follows necessarily from the premises. Induction and abduction, however, are forms of ampliative inference, the results of which do not follow necessarily from the premises. Harman [2...

LCLF: Why another book about “nature versus nurture”? Doesn’t everyone now agree it’s both? JT: The nature/nurture debate is a funny thing. On the one hand, you’re right; it’s very common to hear someone say, “Of course it’s not nature versus nurture; it’s both nature and nurture.” On the other hand, we hear reports all the time about some new study that claims nature trumps nurture when it com...