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Extended Mind II

 Update This issue is scheduled to appear in the Autumn of 2008. All accepted papers will  subject to the usual refereeing process. The contributors:  Leonard Angel (Douglas College) Lynne Baker (UMass Amherst)  Matthew Day (Florida State)  Joel Krueger (Copenhagen) Leslie Marsh (Sussex)  Teed Rockwell (Sonoma State) Mark Rowlands (Miami)

Why were the early Christians persecuted?

I This well-worn question needs to be re-analyzed into the following three subsidiary questions. First, for what reasons did the government (i.e. the organs of state, broadly speaking, the emperor, the senate, officials, and provincial governors) persecute? Secondly, for what reasons did ordinary pagans (i.e. the general populace) demand persecution? Thirdly, we need to examine…

Taking the Super out of the Supernatural

I recently took part in a symposium to discuss Loyal Rue’s Religion is not About God.  This syposium has been published in the June issue of Zygon. ————————————————- TAKING THE SUPER OUT OF THE SUPERNATURAL (OR A MANIFESTO FOR A LATTER-DAY PANTHEISM) Abstract Metaphysical dualities divorce humankind from its natural environment, dualities that can precipitate environmental…

Review Essay: Dennett’s Breaking the Spell

My review essay of Dennett’s Breaking the Spell: Religion as a Natural Phenomenon has just been published in The Journal of Mind and Behavior, Summer and Autumn 2006, Vol. 27, Nos. 3 and 4: 357-366. If you’d like to receive a reprint please drop me a line. Update – now available online. ========================================== The thesis that…