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In this paper I consider work in the cognitive science of religion in light of anthropological work by Saba Mahmood and Charles Hirschkind on the formation of religious subjects in contemporary Egypt to highlight how Foucault's historical constitution of the subject involves the…

The present study reconstructs psychological, linguistic and ontological aspects of Mullā Ṣadrā’s philosophy in the light of Brentano’s theory of intentionality. Brentano used intentionality as a psychological term to denote the ‘mental’ as opposed to the ‘natural’. Later, with …

Until recently, research into dreaming followed the reductionist paradigm within a Freudian framework. This line of enquiry has failed to date to provide a meaningful relationship between neuropsychology and dreaming. As a result, theory development has halted, original therapeu…

While most human language is expressed verbally, the gestures produced concurrent to speech provide additional information, help listeners interpret meaning, and provide insight into the cognitive processes of the speaker. Several theories have suggested that gesture played an i…

The purpose of this dissertation is to establish a systematic account of Avicenna's philosophy of mind, incorporating his innovative views on the existence of the soul, self-awareness, perception and intentionality. In investigating Avicenna's philosophy of mind, I adopt a holis…

A propositional attitude (PA) is a belief, desire, fear, etc., that x is the case. This dissertation addresses the question of the semantic content of a specific kind of PA-instance: an instance of a belief of the form all Fs are Gs. The belief that all bachelors are sports fans…

Assemblies of God USA statistics on credentialed ministers reveal an aging ministerial membership as well as a decline in the number of ministers under the age of forty—a trend that needs reversing. To address this problem, this project implements a mentoring process at Raleigh …

This is the first time such an extensive application has been attempted. The thesis argues that Gestalt therapy as a modality of perception, can best come to a recognition of itself in the Phenomenology of Perception. That Gestalt therapy requires such a support is apparent righ…

Islamic law is manifestly concerned with the categorization and regulation of human actions, including bodily movements, verbal utterances, and material circumstances affected by human activity. In addition to these "exterior" dimensions, Muslim jurists also assume that human ac…