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...concept of belief. Further, my empirical work showed that factors which were 'philosophically irrelevant' (i.e. according to philosophical theory should not influence peoples' intuitions) did have an effect on the judgements people made. Since my own early work, a flurry of activity in XPhi has led to similar discoveries across a range of domains. These indicate that the...

...conception and birth in the Christian Bible, the virgin birth is primarily presented as a result of divine intervention and a sign of Jesus’ chosen status. Mary’s own superior status as a virgin is something that concerned Christians later. In early Christian communities, when the end of the world was believed to be imminent, virginity came to be seen as a liberating...

...but as a New Life Conception. London: Walter Scott. Zahab, M.A. (2007) ‘“I shall be waiting for you at the door of paradise”: the Pakistani martyrs of the Lashkar-e Taiba (Army of the Pure)’ in Rao, A., Bollig, M. and Böck, M. (eds) The Practice of War: Production, Reproduction and Communication of Armed Violence, New York and Oxford, Berghahn Books, pp. 133-158....

...concepts taught by Antisthenes and Aristippus could not be more different, in that the former taught that the good life was attained by self-control and self-abnegation, while the latter claimed a life of pleasure was the only path worth pursuing. It has been said that Socrates' greatest contribution to philosophy was to move intellectual pursuits away from the focus on...