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Recoupling Individuality: Relational Selves and Redemptive Relationships
We must love each other or die. – W. H. Auden. The particularly toxic form that individuality has taken...
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“Person”, “Personal Property” and “Personal Act”: How to Use Philosophical Notions in Ethical Decision-Making at Terminal-Ill Patients
0. Introduction In this paper I want to address the problem of using the notion of “person” or “personhood”...
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Hermeneutics, Neuroscience and Theological Anthropology—A New Way of Talking about Human Experience
Introduction Confronted by the various advances in science and technology in the 21st century which shed new insights into...
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Peaceful Co-Existence of Various Cultures and Religions: An Islamic Perspective with Special Reference to Spain
Mankind is yearning for global peace. During the twentieth century a number of international treatises were signed declaring war...
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Human Being and Non-Reductionist Conceptions of Determination
1. Reductionism, antireductionism and human sciences. The notion of reductionism that in this contribution I will try to discuss...
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Understanding Levels: Redefining Science in an Emergentist World View
An emergentist world view sets certain challenges to our notion of science and of the kinds of explanations of...
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Personhood, Logos and Artificial Intelligence
Y a-t-il un homme si stupide qui n’invente au moins quelque signe pour se faire entendre? Y a-t-il une...
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Can the Human Person Reach Fulfillment Through the Self Alone?
1. The touchstones of the question: a brief overview The keystone of Aristotelian thought is the distinction between act...
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Nonreductive Physicalism and Free Will
1 Introduction First I wish to extend my thanks to the Metanexus Institute for planning this conference, for locating...
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The Idea of Levels of Reality and its Relevance for Non-Reduction and Personhood
1. Introduction – Problems of terminology The words “reduction” and “reductionism” are extremely ambiguous. Different authors use different meanings...