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  • 						Cover Image Vol. 13 No. 1 (2025): Understanding the Future: Scientific, Philosophical and  Theological Perspectives
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    Understanding the Future: Scientific, Philosophical and Theological Perspectives
    Vol. 13 No. 1 (2025)

    2025-03-27

    edited by
    Marcelo López Cambronero and Enrique Anrubia

  • 						Cover Image Call for Papers: AI from the Philosophical and Religious Perspectives
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    Call for Papers: AI from the Philosophical and Religious Perspectives

    2025-01-08

    Call for Papers:

    AI from the Philosophical and Religious Perspectives
    Editors:  Marcin Trepczyński and Furkan Ozcelik

     

    In the considerations about Artificial Intelligence, it is worth combining philosophy with the reflections concerning religion and theological knowledge. This combination enriches the range of the problems which are relevant from the perspective of human condition.

    We would like to invite all the scholars to contribute to the volume “AI from the Philosophical and Religious” by submitting articles which discuss this kind of topics, at the same time showing how rich the range created by merging philosophical and religious perspectives is.

    We invite submissions of papers on topics including but not restricted to:

    • AI and philosophical and religious traditions,
    • AI, social philosophy and religious practices,
    • LLMs and the philosophy of dialogue,
    • LLMs and philosophical and theological reasoning,
    • Testing LLMs' capacities in philosophy and theology,
    • Genuine intelligence of AI and the religious and ethical questions.

    Articles must be written in English and meet the conditions described here: https://apcz.umk.pl/SetF/about/submissions

    All submitted papers which meet basic conditions will be peer-reviewed. Those accepted for publication will be published in the journal Scientia et Fides in a special volume edited by Dr Marcin Trepczyński and Dr Furkan Ozcelik.

    Please contact to: m.trepczynski@uw.edu.pl  and ozcelikfu@gmail.com  

    Please submit articles via:  https://apcz.umk.pl/SetF/login

    Deadline for submissions: by May 15 at the latest.

    The Publisher does not charge Authors and does not pay any honorary. The entire volume will be available in Open Access.

  • 						Cover Image Vol. 12 No. 2 (2024)
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    Vol. 12 No. 2 (2024)

    2024-10-25
  • 						Cover Image Call For Papers: Why Middle Sized Matters to Science & Religion
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    Call For Papers: Why Middle Sized Matters to Science & Religion

    2024-06-12

    Call For Papers

    Why Middle Sized Matters to Science & Religion

    edited by William Simpson & Christopher Oldfield

     

    Submissions are invited for a special issue of the journal, Scientia et Fides (Q1 Scopus), entitled ‘Why Middle-Sized Matters to Science and Religion’. This Special Issue is concerned with the nature, reality and significance of things in nature that exist between the microscopic and the cosmic scale: the ‘Middle-Sized Things’. Why do they matter for science and religion? And what kind of philosophy (or theology) of nature best upholds their reality and significance?

             In contemporary philosophy, there has been a tendency to look to the microscopic or the cosmic scale for the building blocks of reality and meaning, and to treat Middle-Sized Things as having secondary status. Marilynne Robinson once quipped that much popular and philosophical writing on science and religion seems to operate on the assumption that if something is very small or very large it must somehow have to do with the meaning of life. In his 2015 book, After Physics, David Albert imagines being afforded the opportunity of an audience with God and being invited to ask questions about reality, but then being subjected to a very long story about microphysics or cosmology.

             The field of science and religion has also largely developed in consideration of scientific images of the world focused at the microscopic or the cosmic scale. Whilst this special issue is neither seeking to foster scepticism about the reality of the microscopic nor disregard for the significance of cosmic visions, it aims to broaden our focus by asking why Middle-Sized Things matter for both science and religion. After all, the majority of working scientists are not concerned with things at microscopic or the cosmic scale, but with probing the properties of middle-sized things using middle-sized scientific instruments. And the majority of religious practitioners are not concerned with cosmological narratives about how the world came into being, but with the transformation of their own lives within the middle-sized communities in which they participate. From the extreme perspective of Carl Sagan’s “distant vantage point”, however, the middle-sized matters of interest to the majority of working scientific and religious practitioners seem out of place, left out of the picture. So, how should we think about the nature, reality and significance of Middle-Sized Things?

    Suggested Topics
    • the possibility of integrating viewpoints on what is not fundamental or familiar - ways of thinking about the priority of middle sized matters in the natural order - the revival of hylomorphism in contemporary philosophy and its capacity to accommodate middle-sized things within a fundamental ontology of nature - the practical necessity of faith in middle-sized systems, scientists, instruments - the presence of the divine in the manifest image and/or the scientific image;
    • the openness of systems, modes of engagement, participation, process, activity - ways of valuing middle sized subjects, objects, affordances, agencies, operations - the accommodation, appearance, hiddenness, and discernment of divine things;
    • the history of inattention to middle sized matters in science and religion studies.
    Suggested Reading

    Ellis, George F. R. 2023. “Efficient, Formal, Material, and Final Causes in Biology and Technology.” Entropy 25 (9): 1301. Doi: https://doi.org/10.3390/e25091301

    Koons, Robert C. 2022. Is St. Thomas’s Aristotelian Philosophy of Nature Obsolete? St Augustine’s Press.

    Simpson, William M. R. 2023. Hylomorphism. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press.

    Submission

    Papers of no more than 8,000 words (or 30 000 characters, spaces included), should be anonymised and prepared to be submitted for double-blind peer review by 30th December 2024. Papers should be submitted online:

    https://apcz.umk.pl/SetF/about/submissions#onlineSubmissions.

    The method of citing and writing a bibliography according to Chicago Style: https://www.chicagomanualofstyle.org/tools_citationguide/citation-guide-2.html

    Scientia et Fides is an open-access journal published twice a year, classified as Q1 in Philosophy and Q1 in Religious Studies journal rankings according to Scimago. (For more details, see the website: https://apcz.umk.pl/SetF/index)

    Guest-Editors
    1. William M. R. Simpson, Research Assistant Professor in Philosophy atthe University of Durham
    2. Christopher Oldfield, Research Associate, University of Cambridge, Faraday Institute
    Invited Contributors
    1. William Simpson (editorial), Durham
    2. Chris Oldfield, Cambridge
    3. Hans Halvorson, Princeton
    4. George Ellis, Cape Town
    5. Robert Koons, UT Austin
    6. Howard Robinson, CEU
    7. Marta Bielinska, Oxford
    8. Robert Verrill, Oxford
    9. Emily Qureshi-Hurst, Oxford
    Important Dates

    Deadline for submissions: 30th December 2024

     

  • 						Cover Image Vol. 12 No. 1 (2024): The Dynamic Theodicy Model: Understanding God, Evil, and Evolution
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    The Dynamic Theodicy Model: Understanding God, Evil, and Evolution
    Vol. 12 No. 1 (2024)

    2024-04-09

    Edited by
    Piotr Roszak, Saša Horvat, and Tomasz Huzarek

  • 						Cover Image Vol. 11 No. 2 (2023)
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    Vol. 11 No. 2 (2023)

    2023-11-09

     

     

  • 						Cover Image Vol. 11 No. 1 (2023)
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    Vol. 11 No. 1 (2023)

    2023-04-05
  • 						Cover Image Vol. 10 No. 2 (2022): Intellectual virtues for interdisciplinary research in Science and the Big Questions
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    Intellectual virtues for interdisciplinary research in Science and the Big Questions
    Vol. 10 No. 2 (2022)

    2022-12-06

    Edited by
    Claudia E. Vanney & J. Ignacio Aguinalde Sáenz

  • 						Cover Image Vol. 10 No. 1 (2022)
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    Vol. 10 No. 1 (2022)

    2022-03-03

    Current issue of "Scientia et Fides" 10(1)/2022 is dedicated to all freedom loving people around the world, to the people of Ukraine who fight for our freedom.

  • 						Cover Image Vol. 9 No. 2 (2021): Experimental Psychology and the Notion of Personhood
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    Experimental Psychology and the Notion of Personhood
    Vol. 9 No. 2 (2021)

    2021-09-29

    Edited by
    Juan F. Franck, Scott Harrower, Ryan Peterson

  • 						Cover Image Vol. 9 No. 1 (2021)
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    Vol. 9 No. 1 (2021)

    2021-04-14
  • 						Cover Image Vol. 8 No. 2 (2020): Philosophical and Theological Aspects of Evolution
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    Philosophical and Theological Aspects of Evolution
    Vol. 8 No. 2 (2020)

    2020-10-30
    Guest editor: Mariusz Tabaczek OP
  • 						Cover Image Vol. 8 No. 1 (2020)
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    Vol. 8 No. 1 (2020)

    2020-02-12
  • 						Cover Image Vol. 7 No. 2 (2019): Transhumanism
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    Transhumanism
    Vol. 7 No. 2 (2019)

    2019-09-26

    edited by Leandro M. Gaitán

  • 						Cover Image Vol. 7 No. 1 (2019)
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    Vol. 7 No. 1 (2019)

    2019-05-18
  • 						Cover Image Vol. 6 No. 2 (2018)
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    Vol. 6 No. 2 (2018)

    2018-11-28
  • 						Cover Image Vol. 6 No. 1 (2018)
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    Vol. 6 No. 1 (2018)

    2018-05-16
  • 						Cover Image Vol. 5 No. 2 (2017)
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    Vol. 5 No. 2 (2017)

    2017-10-09
  • 						Cover Image Vol. 5 No. 1 (2017): The rational psychology of Francisco Suárez
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    The rational psychology of Francisco Suárez
    Vol. 5 No. 1 (2017)

    2017-04-20
    edited by José Ángel García Cuadrado
  • 						Cover Image Vol. 4 No. 2 (2016): 10th anniversary of Mariano Artigas' death
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    10th anniversary of Mariano Artigas' death
    Vol. 4 No. 2 (2016)

    2016-12-23
    edited by Santiago Collado
  • 						Cover Image Vol. 4 No. 1 (2016)
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    Vol. 4 No. 1 (2016)

    2016-07-07
  • 						Cover Image Vol. 3 No. 2 (2015): On Analytic Theology
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    On Analytic Theology
    Vol. 3 No. 2 (2015)

    2015-11-08
  • 						Cover Image Vol. 3 No. 1 (2015)
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    Vol. 3 No. 1 (2015)

    2015-06-01
  • 						Cover Image Vol. 2 No. 2 (2014)
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    Vol. 2 No. 2 (2014)

    2014-11-25
  • 						Cover Image Vol. 2 No. 1 (2014)
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    Vol. 2 No. 1 (2014)

    2014-05-27
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