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    Creation Belief and Natural Science A Systematic Theological Approach.Otto Hermann Pesch - 2008 - In Evandro Agazzi & Fabio Minazzi (eds.), Science and ethics: the axiological contexts of science. New York: P.I.E. Peter Lang. pp. 213.
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    DAVID M. KNIGHT and MATTHEW D. EDDY , Science and Beliefs: From Natural Philosophy to Natural Science, 1700–1900. Science, Technology and Culture, 1700–1945. Aldershot: Ashgate, 2005. Pp. xiv+272. ISBN 0-7546-3996-7. £47.50. [REVIEW]Ruth Barton - 2007 - British Journal for the History of Science 40 (1):121-123.
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  3. Economic and Biophysical Perspectives.Natural Resource Scarsity - 1991 - In Robert Costanza (ed.), Ecological Economics: The Science and Management of Sustainability. Columbia University Press. pp. 992.
     
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  4. Natural Belief in Persistent Selves.Mark Collier - 2021 - Philosophical Psychology 34 (8):1146–1166.
    In “Of Personal Identity”, Hume attempts to understand why we ordinarily believe in persistent selves. He proposes that this ontological commitment depends on illusions and fictions: the imagination tricks us into supposing that an unchanging core self remains static through the flux and change of experience. Recent work in cognitive science provides a good deal of support for Hume’s hypothesis that common beliefs about the self are founded on psychological biases rather than rational insight or evidence. We naturally believe in (...)
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  5. Ethos und Pathos des Logos: Wissenschaftliches Ethos und Pathos der Wissenschaften in historischer und systematischer Perspektive (Internationale Konferenz in Berlin v. 24. bis 26.11. 2011). [REVIEW]Natur der Wissenschaft - forthcoming - Ethos: Journal of the Society for Psychological Anthropology.
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    Belief in altruistic human nature and prosocial behavior: a serial mediation analysis.Zhuojun Yao & Robert Enright - 2020 - Ethics and Behavior 30 (2):97-111.
    According to the theory of internal working model, belief in altruistic human nature positively influences prosocial behavior. However, the precise influencing mechanism remains unclear. Based on the determinants of human behavior theory and self-efficacy theory, we hypothesized that belief in altruistic human nature indirectly influences prosocial behavior through causally linked multiple mediators of prosocial attitude and prosocial self-efficacy. The results of the current research supported our hypothesis and demonstrated that this serial mediation model could be generalized (...)
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  7. Naturalizing Epistemology.Hilary Kornblith (ed.) - 1985 - Cambridge: Mass.: Mit Press.
    explores the interaction between psychology and epistemology and addresses empirical questions about how we should arrive at our beliefs, and whether the processes by which we arrive at our beliefs are the ones by which we ought to arrive at our beliefs.
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    Beliefs about evolution, mind, nature, and society: Excerpts from an interview with Ervin Laszlo.Joseph H. Schaeffer - 1988 - Zygon 23 (2):171-192.
    Fundamental questions arise in every age, questions such as those concerning the individual in society, social order, labor and exchange, meaning and ethics, and spiritual life and values. In addressing these questions Ervin Laszlo emphasizes insight and understanding, the mutability and flexibility of knowledge, cultural diversity and organizational interdependence, and harmony in nature. General Systems Theory and a theory of general evolution provide the framework for his thinking. He asks that as human beings we assume responsibility for creative, reasoned, (...)
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    Nature and Norms in Thought.Anik Waldow - 2013 - In Martin Lenz & Anik Waldow (eds.), Contemporary Perspectives on Early Modern Philosophy: Nature and Norms in Thought. Springer Verlag. pp. 1-12.
    The present volume joins contributions to early modern debates on nature and norms in thought with decidedly contemporary perspectives, thereby hoping to shed new light on developments in early modern philosophy as well as enrich current discussions on the relation between nature and norms. Clearly, the relation between mind and world poses perennial problems and debates. How do we explain that thoughts and other mental states have content? What makes it the case that some thought is about this (...)
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  10. Rationality, reliability, and natural selection.Richard Feldman - 1988 - Philosophy of Science 55 (June):218-27.
    A tempting argument for human rationality goes like this: it is more conducive to survival to have true beliefs than false beliefs, so it is more conducive to survival to use reliable belief-forming strategies than unreliable ones. But reliable strategies are rational strategies, so there is a selective advantage to using rational strategies. Since we have evolved, we must use rational strategies. In this paper I argue that some criticisms of this argument offered by Stephen Stich fail because they (...)
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  11. Natural language and virtual belief.Keith Frankish - 1998 - In Peter Carruthers & Jill Boucher (eds.), Language and Thought: Interdisciplinary Themes. New York: Cambridge University Press. pp. 248.
    This chapter outlines a new argument for the view that language has a cognitive role. I suggest that humans exhibit two distinct kinds of belief state, one passively formed, the other actively formed. I argue that actively formed beliefs (_virtual beliefs_, as I call them) can be identified with _premising policies_, and that forming them typically involves certain linguistic operations. I conclude that natural language has at least a limited cognitive role in the formation and manipulation of virtual beliefs.
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    Maimonides: Nature, History, and Messianic Beliefs.Amos Funkenstein - 1997 - Jewish Lights Publishing.
    Presents Maimonides' messianic beliefs as stemming from his views of the structure of nature and the course of history. The author argues that Maimonides saw the messianic era as an historical period on one hand, and as a Utopian era of eternal peace and the recognition of God on the other.
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  13. CHARLES David and William Child (eds): Wittgensteinian Themes: Essays.Cohen Ga, If You’re an Egalitarian, Crocker Robert, Reason Religion, Crockett Clayton, DUPRÉ John & Human Nature - 2002 - British Journal for the History of Philosophy 10 (2):325-330.
     
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    High court.Administrative Law-Natural Justice-Whether Refugee - 2006 - Ethos: Journal of the Society for Psychological Anthropology.
    "Case notes." Ethos: Official Publication of the Law Society of the Australian Capital Territory, (199), pp. 34–35.
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    Intelligence Naturalized, Turing-style.Diane Proudfoot - 2024 - In Ali Hossein Khani, Gary Kemp, Hassan Amiriara & Hossein Sheykh Rezaee (eds.), Naturalism and its challenges. New York, NY: Routledge. pp. 274—294.
    The modern project of naturalizing intelligence began in the middle of last century, and Alan Turing is one of its most celebrated proponents. The assumption that Turing shared the ontological and methodological commitments of canonical naturalists is based on certain widespread beliefs about Turing—namely, that his test of intelligence is behaviourist and his approach to the mind computationalist. This chapter argues that influential versions of these assumptions are false, and instead that, in his claim that intelligence is an ‘emotional concept’, (...)
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    Natural theology and epistemic justification.Sebastian Rehnman - 2010 - Heythrop Journal 51 (6):1017-1022.
    First it is argued that the linkage of natural theology to epistemology is invalid historically, epistemologically and metaphysically. Second it is argued that knowledge claims about the ultimate cause of everything should be evaluated not in terms of justified true belief but in terms of the intellectual virtue of wisdom.
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    Necessity and Natural Categories.Lance J. Rips - 2001 - Psychological Bulletin 127:827-852.
    Our knowledge of natural categories includes beliefs not only about what is true of them but also about what would be true if the categories had properties other than (or in addition to) their actual ones. Evidence about these beliefs comes from three lines of research: experiments on category-based induction, on hypothetical transformations of category members, and on definitions of kind terms. The 1st part of this article examines results and theories arising from each of these research streams. The 2nd (...)
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    Reviving natural law.Leszek Kolakoivski - 2000 - Critical Review: A Journal of Politics and Society 15 (1-2):195-202.
    Abstract Despite numerous attempts to invalidate the concept of natural law as presupposing the belief in God or in universal rules of human Reason, this concept is no less valid now than it was in the thirteenth or seventeenth centuries. All that is required to uphold the belief in natural law is a kind of metaphysical faith in the notion of human dignity, which provides us with the surest barriers against both unjust positive legislation and totalitarian political systems.
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  19. Natural Theology and Religious Belief.Max Baker-Hytch - 2023 - In John Greco, Tyler Dalton McNabb & Jonathan Fuqua (eds.), The Cambridge Handbook of Religious Epistemology. New York, NY: Cambridge University Press. pp. 13-28.
    It is no exaggeration to say that there has been an explosion of activity in the field of philosophical enquiry that is known as natural theology. Having been smothered in the early part of the twentieth century due to the dominance of the anti-metaphysical doctrine of logical positivism, natural theology began to make a comeback in the late 1950s as logical positivism collapsed and analytic philosophers took a newfound interest in metaphysical topics such as possibility and necessity, causation, time, the (...)
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  20. Religion is natural.Paul Bloom - manuscript
    Despite its considerable intellectual interest and great social relevance, religion has been neglected by contemporary develop- mental psychologists. But in the last few years, there has been an emerging body of research exploring children’s grasp of certain universal religious ideas. Some recent findings suggest that two foundational aspects of religious beliefbelief in divine agents, and belief in mind–body dualism – come naturally to young children. This research is briefly reviewed, and some future directions..
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    Should be justified as including the right to demand fetal death, not merely fetal evacuation.Natural Meaning & Arda Denkel - 1992 - Australasian Journal of Philosophy 70 (3).
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  22. Natural Selection and Indexical Representation.Clarke Murray - 1996 - In Robert S. Cohen Mathieu Marion (ed.), Quebec Studies in the Philosophy of Science. Springer Press. pp. 50-61.
    In this defense of Reliabilism, I argue that there has been 'selection for' accurate indexical beliefs. I offer empirical evidence and examples to suggest that Steve Stich's defense of the opposite claim in The Fragmentation of Reason is misguided.
     
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    Kierkegaard and Natural Reason.Jack Mulder Jr - 2009 - Faith and Philosophy 26 (1):42-63.
    In this paper I consider Kierkegaard’s pseudonymous attack on natural theology with respect to how it lines up with Catholic thought on that topic. I argue that Kierkegaard’s recently shown similarities to accounts of basic beliefs raise an interesting question when a Catholic hybrid of basic beliefs and natural theology, which I develop in the paper, is considered. Kierkegaard does not attack what we might call natural reason, or a natural awareness of God’s existence, only natural theology’s demonstrative capabilities, and (...)
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  24. Natural Thoughts and Unnatural ‘Oughts’: Lessing, Wittgenstein, and Contemporary CSR.Guy Axtell - 2023 - In Robert Vinten (ed.), Wittgenstein and the Cognitive Science of Religion: Interpreting Human Nature and the Mind. London: Bloomsbury Academic.
    Wittgenstein’s “Lectures on Religious Belief” (LRB) provide a source for as yet unexplored connections to religious ideas as treated in Robert N. McCauley’s book Why Religion is Natural and Science is Not (2013), and to other CSR scholars who focus attention on how “cognitively speaking it is religion that is natural and science that is largely unnatural.” Tensions are explored in this paper between our “maturationally natural” religious inclinations to adopt religious ideas and the “unnatural” demands sometimes made upon (...)
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    Reel Nature: America's Romance with Wildlife on Film.Gregg Mitman - 2000 - Journal of the History of Biology 33 (2):385-387.
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    Human tragedy and natural selection.Louis Pascal - 1978 - Inquiry: An Interdisciplinary Journal of Philosophy 21 (1-4):443 – 460.
    It is argued that too logical a mind is not favored by natural selection; rather, it is biologically useful to be able to rationalize away certain unpleasant aspects of reality. In most cases this irrationality has to do either with our reproductive ideas or with our ways of viewing the future. In both cases the implications with regard to our ability to solve the current population growth/resource shrinkage crisis are decidedly negative. Looked at from a slightly different perspective, this same (...)
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    Norman Kemp Smith on “Natural Belief”.Thomas K. Hearn - 1969 - Southern Journal of Philosophy 7 (1):3-7.
  28. Natural number and natural geometry.Elizabeth S. Spelke - 2011 - In Stanislas Dehaene & Elizabeth Brannon (eds.), Space, Time and Number in the Brain: Searching for the Foundations of Mathematical Thought. Oxford University Press. pp. 287--317.
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  29. Perception Naturalized in Aristotle's de Anima.Robert Bolton - 2005 - In Ricardo Salles (ed.), Metaphysics, soul, and ethics in ancient thought: themes from the work of Richard Sorabji. New York: Oxford University Press.
  30. Traditional natural philosophy.William A. Wallace - 1988 - In C. B. Schmitt, Quentin Skinner, Eckhard Kessler & Jill Kraye (eds.), The Cambridge History of Renaissance Philosophy. New York: Cambridge University Press. pp. 201--35.
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    Nature as Craftsman in Greek Thought.Friedrich Solmsen - 1963 - Journal of the History of Ideas 24 (4):473.
  32. Natural law.Richard Wollheim - 1967 - In Paul Edwards (ed.), The Encyclopedia of philosophy. New York,: Macmillan. pp. 5--450.
     
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  33. Naturalizing observation.Harold I. Brown - 1987 - In Nancy Nersessian (ed.), The Process of science: contemporary philosophical approaches to understanding scientific practice. Hingham, MA, USA: Kluwer Academic Publishers.
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  34. Pufendorf coercion, religious beliefs and toleration.Heikki Haara - 2022 - In Hans Willem Blom (ed.), Sacred Polities, Natural Law and the Law of Nations in the 16th-17th Centuries. Boston: BRILL.
     
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  35. Appendix 1: On Animal Beliefs and Animal Morality.P. M. S. Hacker - 2020 - In The moral powers: a study of human nature. Hoboken, NJ, USA: Wiley-Blackwell. pp. 361–389.
     
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    III. Rational Belief.Robert Nozick - 1993 - In The Nature of Rationality. Princeton University Press. pp. 64-106.
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  37. From nature to culture, from culture to society.Walter Garry Runciman - 2001 - In W. G. Runciman (ed.), The Origin of Human Social Institutions. British Academy. pp. 235-254.
     
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    Humean Nature: How Desire Explains Action, Thought, and Feeling.Neil Sinhababu - 2017 - Oxford: Oxford University Press.
    This book defends the Humean Theory of Motivation, according to which desire drives all action and practical reasoning. -/- Desire motivates us to pursue its object. It makes thoughts of its object pleasant. It focuses attention on its object. Its effects are amplified by vivid representations of its object. These aspects of desire explain why motivation usually accompanies moral belief, how intentions shape our plans, how we exercise willpower, what human selves are, how action can express emotion, why we (...)
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  39. Louis Goble.Belief Ascriptions - 1997 - In Dunja Jutronić (ed.), The Maribor papers in naturalized semantics. Maribor: Pedagoška fakulteta Maribor. pp. 285.
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  40. Georg Meggle.Common Belief - 2003 - In Matti Sintonen, Petri Ylikoski & Kaarlo Miller (eds.), Realism in Action: Essays in the Philosophy of the Social Sciences. Kluwer Academic Publishers. pp. 321--251.
     
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    Testimony, Credulity, and Veracity.I. Testimony-Based Belief - 2006 - In Jennifer Lackey & Ernest Sosa (eds.), The epistemology of testimony. New York: Oxford University Press. pp. 25.
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    6. nature.John Deck - 1967 - In Nature, Contemplation, and the One: A Study in the Philosophy of Plotinus. University of Toronto Press. pp. 64-72.
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  43. Michael Goldstein.Belief Revision - 1994 - In Dag Prawitz & Dag Westerståhl (eds.), Logic and Philosophy of Science in Uppsala: Papers From the 9th International Congress of Logic, Methodology and Philosophy of Science. Dordrecht, Netherland: Kluwer Academic Publishers. pp. 117.
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  44. The Multicultural Critique: The Liberal Case Against Diversity, HE Baber. Amherst: Prometheus Books, 2008, 260 pp., $25.95. [REVIEW]Jakob Lindgaard Nature, Simon Critchley Time & Reiner Schürmann - 2008 - Inquiry: An Interdisciplinary Journal of Philosophy 51 (6):661-662.
  45. Synchronizing nature and culture : mediating time in geochronology and dendrochronology, 1900-1945.Staffan Bergwik - 2022 - In Anders Ekström & Staffan Bergwik (eds.), Times of history, times of nature: temporalization and the limits of modern knowledge. New York: Berghahn.
     
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    Human Nature and Education : Psychological and NeoConfucianist Viewpoints.Jong-Duk Park - 2015 - The Journal of Moral Education 27 (1):47.
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  47. Gardens, nature, pleasure.R. Ross - 2007 - In Arnold Berleant & Allen Carlson (eds.), The Aesthetics of Human Environments. Peterborough, CA: Broadview Press. pp. 252--271.
     
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  48. God, Hume and Natural Belief.J. C. A. Gaskin - 1974 - Philosophy 49 (189):281 - 294.
    Hume's doctrine of natural belief allows that certain beliefs are justifiably held by all men without regard to the quality of the evidence which may be produced in their favour. Examples are belief in an external world and belief in the veracity of our senses. According to R. J. Butler, Hume argues in the Dialogues that belief in God is of this sort. More recently John Hick has argued that for some people it is as natural (...)
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  49. Natural law, human rights, and jus Cogens.Stephen Hall - 2022 - In Tom P. S. Angier, Iain T. Benson & Mark Retter (eds.), The Cambridge handbook of natural law and human rights. New York, NY: Cambridge University Press.
     
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    Man, nature, and semiotic modelling or How to create forests and backyards with language.Prisca Augustyn - 2013 - Sign Systems Studies 41 (4):488-503.
    This paper explains how we create concepts such as the forest or the backyard through language. Reflecting on Andreas Weber’s hope for a revolution of the life sciences and a re-evaluation of the role human beings play in nature, this paper adopts as a starting point Bruno Latour’s characterization of the distinctionbetween nature and culture as an illusion that came with Modernity. Theoretical notions from modelling systems theory and cognitive linguistics explain that whilelanguage plays a key role in (...)
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