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		<title>Essay: Ontological Realism</title>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 10 Dec 2011 21:50:59 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Any attempt to elaborate the nature and functioning of religious language is deeply influenced by the view of reality operative therein, whether explicitly or implicitly.  For example, if I adhere to a naturalistic account of reality, I will almost certainly seek to understand religion as a somewhat illusory outgrowth of evolved biological capacities, an outgrowth [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=inthemidstoftheplan.wordpress.com&amp;blog=22831678&amp;post=449&amp;subd=inthemidstoftheplan&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Essay: Scientific Knowledge of Religion</title>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 06 Nov 2011 09:15:20 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[A rough bit from a project I am working on&#8230; &#160; At the beginning of the Western philosophical tradition, Plato described knowledge as justified belief.  That knowledge is justified belief or “true justified belief” remains the starting point today for discussions of the nature of knowledge in that branch of philosophy known as epistemology.  For [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=inthemidstoftheplan.wordpress.com&amp;blog=22831678&amp;post=444&amp;subd=inthemidstoftheplan&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Essay: Naturalism and Thinking About Religion</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 04 Nov 2011 13:53:55 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Modern philosophy unfolds within a particular epistemological problematic brought on by the advent of modern science and naturalism.  In short, the problem is that if we accept the received scientific vision of nature as exhaustive, then we are forced to regard our mental capacities as either reducible to natural phenomena, located in a realm transcendent [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=inthemidstoftheplan.wordpress.com&amp;blog=22831678&amp;post=442&amp;subd=inthemidstoftheplan&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Open Letter mentioned on Leiter Report</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 14 Oct 2011 12:23:23 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Check out the link to the open letter in support of the persecuted Baha&#8217;i university students in Iran on the Leiter Report, certainly the most important philosophy blog in circulation. Filed under: Articles, Culture, Discourse, History, Philosophy, Religion, Science<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=inthemidstoftheplan.wordpress.com&amp;blog=22831678&amp;post=440&amp;subd=inthemidstoftheplan&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Essay: Science and Naturalism</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 14 Oct 2011 10:39:19 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Ours is an age of transition. We have passed through the excited self-confidence of modernity, yet into what we do not as yet known. The old certainties no longer hold, and we have as yet nothing with which to replace them. We are gripped by uncertainty, pushed to the brink of chaos, yet longing for [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=inthemidstoftheplan.wordpress.com&amp;blog=22831678&amp;post=437&amp;subd=inthemidstoftheplan&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Philosophers and Theologians Worldwide Condemn Iran&#8217;s Attack on Baha&#8217;i Students</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 10 Oct 2011 08:42:28 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[&#160; &#160; Recently a number of very prominent philosophers and theologians from around the world have written an open letter expressing their support of the persecuted Baha&#8217;i students in Iran.  Among them are figures such as Charles Taylor, Hilary Putnam, Cornel West, John Milbank, Stanley Hauerwas, and William Desmond, among many others (43 in all). [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=inthemidstoftheplan.wordpress.com&amp;blog=22831678&amp;post=430&amp;subd=inthemidstoftheplan&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Article: Human Nature &amp; The Decline of Violence</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 06 Oct 2011 06:25:46 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Kerilyn.Schewel</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Steven Pinker, a professor of psychology at Harvard University, has recently written a book entitled “The Better Angels of Our Nature: Why Violence Has Declined.&#8221; He looks at the history of violence from a scientific viewpoint and concludes that we are living &#8220;in the best of times, not the worst&#8221;; humanity is indeed moving in a [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=inthemidstoftheplan.wordpress.com&amp;blog=22831678&amp;post=424&amp;subd=inthemidstoftheplan&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Essay: Contemporary Approaches to Religion</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 04 Oct 2011 21:33:04 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>ben.schewel</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Here is a bit of something I am working on with a colleague: When seeking to engage the question of religion, we find there to be five common misrepresentations of religion, which we can call the Christianizing, indigenizing, naturalizing, communitizing, and intellectualizing tendencies.  It is important to emphasize from the outset that our critique is [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=inthemidstoftheplan.wordpress.com&amp;blog=22831678&amp;post=421&amp;subd=inthemidstoftheplan&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Actor Rainn Wilson talks about the persecution of Bahá&#8217;í Students in Iran</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 26 Sep 2011 07:05:26 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>ben.schewel</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[The following is a very moving video in which actor Rainn Wilson talks about the persecution of Bahá&#8217;í students in Iran, in particular the recent attacks upon the Bahá&#8217;í Institute for Higher Education. &#160; Filed under: Articles, Culture, Discourse, Religion, Science<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=inthemidstoftheplan.wordpress.com&amp;blog=22831678&amp;post=418&amp;subd=inthemidstoftheplan&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Article: For and against naturalism</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 19 Sep 2011 15:34:36 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Here are two very interesting articles, one by an Oxford professor of philosophy against naturalism, and another by a Duke professor of philosophy for naturalism.   I would like to hear readers&#8217; responses to their respective arguments. &#160; &#160; &#160; &#160; Filed under: Articles, Culture, Discourse, Philosophy, Science<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=inthemidstoftheplan.wordpress.com&amp;blog=22831678&amp;post=412&amp;subd=inthemidstoftheplan&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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