Jim Slagle
Biographic Data
| ID | 5966024 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Jim Slagle |
| GIVEN NAMES | Jim |
| FAMILY NAME | Slagle |
| SIGNATURE | SLAGLE J |
| AFFILIATIONS | University of Portland |
| ORCID | 0000-0003-1511-795X |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 4 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 0 |
| WORKS AS AUTHOR | 4 |
| WORKS AS EDITOR | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2016 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2023 |
| H-INDEX | 0 |
Extraterrestrial Soteriology
One scientific objection to religion is that the discovery of extraterrestrial life would show that our religions are not veridical, with Christianity being the most common target. I will first look at a parallel issue, the ancient and medieval controversy over antipodes. This raises two problematic Christian doctrines that would apply equally to extraterrestrials: the transmission of original sin and the cosmic fall. These issues raise questions…
Cosmic Proportions and Human Significance
A common misperception, both within academia and without, is that the premodern, Judeo-Christian picture of the universe was of a small, cramped one. This allowed people to believe that the Earth and its inhabitants were the most important thing in it. But this misfires in several ways: First, the premodern cosmos is only small in comparison to what contemporary science has discovered, not absolutely. Second, the premoderns felt just as insignifi…
Rationality and Reflection
Self-Awareness in Islamic Philosophy
Jari Kaukua begins this book by clarifying that we cannot simply map the Avicennan notion of self-awareness onto contemporary discussions in philosophy of mind, since in many respects we are dealing with different concepts, functions, and applications. Nevertheless, his study is not merely of historical interest. He begins by going over the pre-Islamic background of Aristotle and neo-Platonism. While many elements of Aristotle’s De Anima play a r…
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Self-Awareness in Islamic Philosophy
Jari Kaukua begins this book by clarifying that we cannot simply map the Avicennan notion of self-awareness onto contemporary discussions in philosophy of mind, since in many respects we are dealing with different concepts, functions, and applications. Nevertheless, his study is not merely of historical interest. He begins by going over the pre-Islamic background of Aristotle and neo-Platonism. While many elements of Aristotle’s De Anima play a r…
Rationality and Reflection
Cosmic Proportions and Human Significance
A common misperception, both within academia and without, is that the premodern, Judeo-Christian picture of the universe was of a small, cramped one. This allowed people to believe that the Earth and its inhabitants were the most important thing in it. But this misfires in several ways: First, the premodern cosmos is only small in comparison to what contemporary science has discovered, not absolutely. Second, the premoderns felt just as insignifi…
Extraterrestrial Soteriology
One scientific objection to religion is that the discovery of extraterrestrial life would show that our religions are not veridical, with Christianity being the most common target. I will first look at a parallel issue, the ancient and medieval controversy over antipodes. This raises two problematic Christian doctrines that would apply equally to extraterrestrials: the transmission of original sin and the cosmic fall. These issues raise questions…
Epistemology (4 works) · Philosophy (3 works) · Aesthetics (2 works) · Evolution and Science Education (2 works) · Physics (2 works) · Theology (2 works) · Argument (complex analysis (1 work) · Art history (1 work) · Astrobiology (1 work) · Astronomy (1 work)