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• Free Will
  ...that individuals can be held morally accountable for their actions. In the scientific realm, it may imply that the actions of the body, including the brain and t ...on "ethical grounds," he did not believe that there was evidence for it on scientific grounds, nor did his own introspections support it. Moreover, he did not ac
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• Celestial Contact
  ...a medium. [8][9] The last physical medium to be tested by a committee from Scientific American was Mina Crandon in 1924. # Journal of the Society for Psychical Research January, 2001 - Vol. 65.1, Num. 862
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• Languages and Literature
  ...existence of "[[mirror cells]]" in [[primate]]s. This, however, is still a scientific question. What exactly is the definition of the word "language"? Most resea [[Philosophy]], [[history]], [[journalism]], and legal and scientific writings traditionally ranked as literature. They offer some of the oldest
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• Evolution
  ...P, Kinnison MT, An introduction to microevolution: rate, pattern, process |journal=Genetica |volume=112–113) Thus, the distinction between micro- and macroe ...ce and necessity: the evolution of morphological complexity and diversity |journal=Nature |volume=409 |issue=6823 |pages=1102-09 |year=2001 |pmid=11234024) Fo
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• 2010-06-20-Long View Project-Dialogue 19
  ...t commentary concerning Nicolas Tesla and his frustrated attempts to bring scientific discoveries to the masses. The singular one who blocked his efforts, J. Pie
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• Ken Wilber
  ...s and workshops before going back to writing. He also helped to launch the journal ''[[ReVision]]'' in 1978. ...ye of Spirit'' (1997) was a compilation of articles he had written for the journal ''ReVision'' on the relationship between science and religion. Throughout 1
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• Fatherhood
  ...rical approach has been destabilised with the recent emergence of accurate scientific testing, particularly DNA testing. As a result, the [[law]] on fatherhood i ...Questioning the Father: From Darwin to Zola, Ibsen, Strindberg, and Hardy Journal of European Studies, December, 2000
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• Art History
  ..., one of the founders of scientific psychology. A principal, if strained, scientific conception was that of the artistic ideal of corporeal correspondence; i.e. ...930s with his essay ''[[Avant-Garde and Kitsch]]'', first published in the journal [[Partisan Review]] 1939.<ref>[[Clement Greenberg]], ''Art and Culture,'' B
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• Psychoanalysis
  ...attempt at an explanatory theory was the then unpublished ''Project for a Scientific Psychology'' in 1895. In this work Freud attempted to develop a neurophysio ...ated local chapters. The European Psychoanalytical Federation (EPF) is the scientific organization that consolidates all European psychoanalytic societies. This
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• Meditation
  ...pted and increasingly practiced in [[Western world|Western]] culture. (The Journal of Transpersonal Psychology 22|pages=pp. 149-166) ...the Australian psychiatrist [[Ainslie Meares]], reported in the ''Medical Journal of Australia,'' the regression of cancer following intensive meditation. Me
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• Ufology
  ...of study even though it was, in the early days, the subject of large scale scientific studies that produced reports described to follow.[1] Prior to August, 2008 ...y of study as any topic, and deserve case-by-case [[analysis]] using the [[scientific method]]. Debunkers include Philip Klass and Dr. Donald Menzel.
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• Intellectual History
  ...by the [https://muse.jhu.edu/journals/journal_of_the_history_of_ideas/ <i>Journal of the History of Ideas</i>])
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• Politics
  .....to identify and, thereby, attack the ”deceiving“ power of universalizing scientific [[epistemology|epistemologies]]." McGettigan, Timothy,[https://www.sociolog Epiphany as a Standard of Postmodern Truth], Electronic Journal of Sociology
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• African Philosophy
  ...losophical thought. The standard view of the rise of philosophical (and of scientific) thought is that it probably required a certain sort of social structure (o ...frican Philosophy And Religion'' In: African Studies Quarterly, The Online Journal for African Studies, Volume 1, Issue 4, 1998]
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• Anthropology
  The anthropologist [[Eric Wolf]] once described anthropology as "the most scientific of the humanities, and the most humanistic of the [[sciences]]." Contempora ..., or eras. The ''[[social sciences]]'' have generally attempted to develop scientific methods to understand social phenomena in a generalizable way, though usual
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• Tycho Brahe
  ...ed: why the moose was indoors was not specified.(Tycho Brahe: A Picture of Scientific Life and Work in the Sixteenth Century) ...annes Kepler, Tycho Brahe, and the Murder Behind One of History's Greatest Scientific Discoveries, ISBN 978-1-4000-3176-4 ) According to the Gilders, they find
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• 2006-07-10-Perfection of Matter & Personality
  ...ness to change, to try something new, to get beyond denial. You can keep a journal to help yourself understand the causes and effects involved, and remember w MICHAEL: Yes. This is being truly scientific. You make small changes and then stay open to note the effects. Don’t for
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• Atheism
  ...ief in conflict with established religion. With the spread of freethought, scientific skepticism, and criticism of [[religion]], the term began to gather a more ...m]]—the "tacit adoption or assumption of philosophical naturalism within [[scientific method]] with or without fully accepting or believing it."
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• Earth
  ...of a transiting extrasolar planet, Nature, [https://www.nature.com/nature/journal/v448/n7150/abs/nature06002.html] The Earth formed about [[Age of the Earth| ...mpact near the end of the Earth's formation [https://www.nature.com/nature/journal/v412/n6848/abs/412708a0.html]. Some of this object's mass merged with the E
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• Communism
  ...ry "utopian socialism" while their own views as "scientific socialism" or "scientific communism".[9] ...ciety into an industrial state with a literate population and a remarkable scientific superstructure."[22] but at the expenses of forced collectivization, famine
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