one of the approaches which defends the rationality of religious beliefs is the reformed epistemology. among reformed epistemologists, wolterstorff’s view is subject to less criticism. this article tries to present epistemological foundations of wolterstorff’s view by describing and analyzing the statements which he has offered in his works. wolterstorff’s epistemological foundations are explai...

There has been a rising Islamic fundamentalism, and intolerance cases in contemporary Indonesia. The fundamentalism problem Indonesia particularly points to the Wahhābi for its puritanical ideology as root of cases. This article aims analyse Indonesia’s largest Muslim organization, Nahdlatul Ulama (NU) responses towards group. Being forefront struggle against fundamentalist groups post-New Orde...

Women's reproductive rights, reproductive health, and constitutional privacy rights in the United States are addressed in light of the contemporary onslaught of the Christian Right. The misuse of State power by fundamentalist social forces in America is critiqued. The article also briefly reviews the question of State control over women's bodies.

The paper is based on the premise that neoliberalism is a political rationality that is not only anti-social but also requires an anti-democratic and violent form of statehood. However, neoliberalism is not solely based on coercion and force, but paradoxically also on consensus. This consensus is not least organized through its flexibilized and pluralized sexual politics. By focussing on sexual...

Second-order uncertainty, also known as model uncertainty and Knightian uncertainty, arises when decision-makers can (partly) model the parameters of their decision problems. It is widely believed that subjective probability, and more generally Bayesian theory, are illsuited to represent a number of interesting second-order uncertainty features, especially “ignorance” and “ambiguity”. This fail...

Despite the growing violence against LGBTQ people nationwide, National Congress of Brazil has failed to pass any legislation protecting rights. The executive and judiciary have compensated for this legislative gap by rights through palliative policies. By historically analyzing anti-homophobia bill PLC 122 presenting a discourse analysis ten anti-LGBTQ bills, as well results semi-structured int...

was killed on March 8, 2005, he also signaled his intention to have a dialogue with Vladimir Putin. Islamic fundamentalist terrorists or messianic terrorists like bin Laden and alZarqawi have a different agenda: to eliminate any political system that does not embrace Islam as the “only true religion . . . and [accept] that all other religions and civilizations [are] barbarian, evil, and animal-...

Resumen En este artículo, defiendo que las creencias religiosas pueden ser pragmáticamente racionales. Una creencia religiosa es racional si consistente con una ética de virtudes, como la Martha Nussbaum, al margen tal tiene evidencia o justificación soporte epistémico. Para lograr objetivo, primero, analizaré algunas tesis pragmatistas y anti-evidencialistas William James Richard Rorty. segund...