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Rene Girard and the Genealogy of Consumerism
Ask for more– the catch phrase, brought up by the campaign promoting one of the most popular drinks in...
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Objectivity and Subjectivity in Science and Religion: Towards Basing Inter-Religious Dialogue on Rational Grounds
Is objectivity a characteristic of scientific knowledge?What is the root of the objective and public nature of science? Mathematics...
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Spinoza, Language and Relational Identity
Introduction: Spinoza’s early modern naturalism The life of Dutch Jewish philosopher Baruch Spinoza spanned the mid-17th century, a time...
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The Personal Being (Polo)
I wish to say, just at the beginning, that we are very convinced of the great relevance of Leonardo...
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Personhood or Non-Self: Christian and Buddhist Approaches to the Self in the Context of Modern Scientific Results
The question A basic doctrine of Buddhism is the statement that no Self exists, the doctrine of Non-Self, Anatta1....
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Revelatory Spirituality and Science—an Oxymoron? Examining Revelatory Transcendental Discourses on Self and Personhood at the Intersections of Science, Buddhism and Christianity
Part I: The “Spirit Crisis”: “No-self” in Science We have unlearned something. We have become more modest in every...
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The Role of Imagery, Particularly Scientific Imagery, in Transdisciplinary Dialogue
As a scientist whose studies began in the arts, I have always been interested in interdisciplinary approaches to coming...
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Implications of Interpersonal Neurobiology for a Spirituality of Compassion
A version of this essay is forthcoming in Zygon: Journal of Religion and Science. Parts of the paper were...
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The Structure of Selves: The Nature of Selfhood and the Schizophrenic Experience
The primary assumption of this study is that there exists a uniquely human selfhood. Consequently, the subsequent assumption, that...
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A Feminist Exegesis of Non-Self: On Classical Buddhist Understanding of Personhood and Identity
Buddhism and feminism appear to be two very different strains of thought. One originated in ancient Northeast India and...