Hasil untuk "Philosophy of religion. Psychology of religion. Religion in relation to other subjects"

Samuel Hayim Brody

Zenghao Duan, Wenbin Duan, Zhiyi Yin et al.

Knowledge editing has become a promising approach for efficiently and precisely updating knowledge embedded in large language models (LLMs). In this work, we focus on Same-Subject Editing, which involves modifying multiple attributes of a single entity to ensure comprehensive and consistent updates to entity-centric knowledge. Through preliminary observation, we identify a significant challenge: Current state-of-the-art editing methods struggle when tasked with editing multiple related knowledge pieces for the same subject. To address the lack of relevant editing data for identical subjects in traditional benchmarks, we introduce the $\text{S}^2\text{RKE}$(Same-Subject Related Knowledge Editing) benchmark. Our extensive experiments reveal that only mainstream locate-then-edit methods, such as ROME and MEMIT, exhibit "related knowledge perturbation," where subsequent edits interfere with earlier ones. Further analysis reveals that these methods over-rely on subject information, neglecting other critical factors, resulting in reduced editing effectiveness.

Ke Luoma, Li Zengyi, Liao Jiangqun et al.

This study examines whether LLMs can simulate culturally grounded psychological patterns based on demographic information. Using DeepSeek, we generated 2943 virtual participants matched to demographic distributions from the CFPS2018 and compared them with human responses on the Big Five personality traits and subjective well-being across seven Chinese regions.Personality was measured using a 15-item Chinese Big Five inventory, and happiness with a single-item rating. Results revealed broad similarity between real and simulated datasets, particularly in regional variation trends. However, systematic differences emerged:simulated participants scored lower in extraversion and openness, higher in agreeableness and neuroticism, and consistently reported lower happiness. Predictive structures also diverged: while human data identified conscientiousness, extraversion and openness as positive predictors of happiness, the AI emphasized openness and agreeableness, with extraversion predicting negatively. These discrepancies suggest that while LLMs can approximate population-level psychological distributions, they underrepresent culturally specific and affective dimensions. The findings highlight both the potential and limitations of LLM-based virtual participants for large-scale psychological research and underscore the need for culturally enriched training data and improved affective modeling.

Aryeh Lazar

Past research on sanctification has focused on the direct association between domain sanctification and domain satisfaction. This registered-report study focused on the predicted moderating function of sexual sanctification on the association between sexual and relationship satisfaction. An Internet panel sample of 740 women and 872 men, all married Jewish individuals residing in Israel, assessed the levels of their sexual and marital satisfaction, sexual sanctification, religiousness, and social desirability via an anonymous online questionnaire. As expected, sexual and marital satisfaction were highly correlated. As predicted, sexual sanctification was found to moderate the association between sexual and marital satisfaction for women even after controlling for age, religiousness, and social desirability. However, although the positive association between sexual and relationship satisfaction was predicted to be larger at higher levels of sanctification than at lower levels, the moderation analysis revealed a reverse pattern. In addition, the moderation effect was significant for men only after controlling for religiousness. Post hoc analyses for moderated moderation confirmed significant gender differences in the moderation function of sexual sanctification. The importance of examining gender differences in future sanctification studies and the theoretical implications for the independence of sanctification from religiousness is discussed.

Lauren Osborne

This article argues that the Qur’an presents an epistemology that can recenter the categories underlying modern understandings of religion and knowledge. This is done through an examination of the role of orality, textuality, writing, and listening in relation to the Qur’an. The article consists of two parts: first, a synthesis and intervention of the research on the construction of the modern category of religion is brought together with a discussion of modern ways of knowing and sensing. Second, I argue that further attention to orality, sound, and listening in relation to the Qur’an further confounds the assumed neutrality of the categories of knowledge and subjectivity associated with the modern category of religion. The argument reveals the implied assumptions of the categories of orality and textuality that undergird the modern category of religion, to which the Qur’an presents an epistemology wherein orality and textuality are intertwined and overlapping categories and ways of knowing and experiencing, not separable categories as is often assumed.

Büşra Elmas

Dispensationalism is a significant theological movement in the United States, especially within Evangelical Christianity. Dispensations refer to the periods that adherents of this belief separate in explaining world history. These periods are generally designated as seven eras in which the relationship between God and humanity was established in varying ways. The idea of dispensationalism was developed by John Nelson Darby. His literal and futuristic interpretation led him to distinguish the roles of Israel and the Church in the Bible prophecies. After Darby, C. I. Scofield played a crucial role in popularizing Darby’s ideas in the United States with the publication of his Scofield Reference Bible. This article examines the historical process of dispensationalism and focuses on its founder, John Nelson Darby, and his views on dispensationalism from a historical perspective. The article concludes that Darby’s dispensationalism is widely accepted by Evangelicals, that the rapture and the separation of the Church and Israel in the God’s divine plan have provided the theological basis for Evangelical Christians’ support for Israel and have had various effects on American popular culture.

Yisheng Yang, Sim Kuan Goh, Qing Cai et al.

Drawing inspiration from the philosophy of Yi Jing, the Yin-Yang pair optimization (YYPO) algorithm has been shown to achieve competitive performance in single objective optimizations, in addition to the advantage of low time complexity when compared to other population-based meta-heuristics. Building upon a reversal concept in Yi Jing, we propose the novel Yi optimization (YI) algorithm. Specifically, we enhance the Yin-Yang pair in YYPO with a proposed Yi-point, in which we use Cauchy flight to update the solution, by implementing both the harmony and reversal concept of Yi Jing. The proposed Yi-point balances both the effort of exploration and exploitation in the optimization process. To examine YI, we use the IEEE CEC 2017 benchmarks and compare YI against the dynamical YYPO, CV1.0 optimizer, and four classical optimizers, i.e., the differential evolution, the genetic algorithm, the particle swarm optimization, and the simulated annealing. According to the experimental results, YI shows highly competitive performance while keeping the low time complexity. The results of this work have implications for enhancing a meta-heuristic optimizer using the philosophy of Yi Jing. While this work implements only certain aspects of Yi Jing, we envisage enhanced performance by incorporating other aspects.

Yuqi Chen, Sixuan Li, Ying Li et al.

In this work, we develop a pipeline for historical-psychological text analysis in classical Chinese. Humans have produced texts in various languages for thousands of years; however, most of the computational literature is focused on contemporary languages and corpora. The emerging field of historical psychology relies on computational techniques to extract aspects of psychology from historical corpora using new methods developed in natural language processing (NLP). The present pipeline, called Contextualized Construct Representations (CCR), combines expert knowledge in psychometrics (i.e., psychological surveys) with text representations generated via transformer-based language models to measure psychological constructs such as traditionalism, norm strength, and collectivism in classical Chinese corpora. Considering the scarcity of available data, we propose an indirect supervised contrastive learning approach and build the first Chinese historical psychology corpus (C-HI-PSY) to fine-tune pre-trained models. We evaluate the pipeline to demonstrate its superior performance compared with other approaches. The CCR method outperforms word-embedding-based approaches across all of our tasks and exceeds prompting with GPT-4 in most tasks. Finally, we benchmark the pipeline against objective, external data to further verify its validity.

Richard Naud, André Longtin

Neuroscience and artificial intelligence are closely intertwined, but so are the physics of dynamical system, philosophy and psychology. Each of these fields try in their own way to relate observations at the level of molecules, synapses, neurons or behavior, to a function. An influential conceptual approach to this end was popularized by David Marr, which focused on the interaction between three theoretical 'levels of analysis'. With the convergence of simulation-based approaches, algorithm-oriented Neuro-AI and high-throughput data, we currently see much research organized around four levels of analysis: observations, models, algorithms and functions. Bidirectional interaction between these levels influences how we undertake interdisciplinary science.

Eugene Y. S. Chua

Taking the formal analogies between black holes and classical thermodynamics seriously seems to first require that classical thermodynamics applies to relativistic regimes. Yet, by scrutinizing how classical temperature is extended into special relativity, I argue that it falls apart. I examine four consilient procedures for establishing classical temperature - the Carnot process, the thermometer, kinetic theory, and black-body radiation. I show how their relativistic counterparts demonstrate no such consilience in defining relativistic temperature. Hence, classical temperature does not appear to survive a relativistic extension. I suggest two interpretations for this situation - eliminativism akin to simultaneity, or pluralism akin to rotation.

Karin Verelst

Isaac Newton, in popular imagination the Ur-scientist, was an outstanding humanist scholar. His researches on, among others, ancient philosophy, are thorough and appear to be connected to and fit within his larger philosophical and theological agenda. It is therefore relevant to take a closer look at Newton's intellectual choices, at how and why precisely he would occupy himself with specific text-sources, and how this interest fits into the larger picture of his scientific and intellectual endeavours. In what follows, we shall follow Newton into his study and look over his shoulder while reading compendia and original source-texts in his personal library at Cambridge, meticulously investigating and comparing fragments and commentaries, and carefully keeping track in private notes of how they support his own developing ideas. Indeed, Newton was convinced that precursors to his own insights and discoveries were present already in Antiquity, even before the Greeks, in ancient Egypt, and he puts a lot of time and effort into making the point, especially, and not incidentially, in the period between the first and the second edition of the Principia. A clear understanding of his reading of the classic sources therefore matters to our understanding of its content and gestation process. In what follows we will confine ourselves to the classical legacy, and investigate Newton's intellectual intercourse with it.

Jai Pal

This research paper focuses on the integration of Artificial Intelligence (AI) into the currency trading landscape, positing the development of personalized AI models, essentially functioning as intelligent personal assistants tailored to the idiosyncrasies of individual traders. The paper posits that AI models are capable of identifying nuanced patterns within the trader's historical data, facilitating a more accurate and insightful assessment of psychological risk dynamics in currency trading. The PRI is a dynamic metric that experiences fluctuations in response to market conditions that foster psychological fragility among traders. By employing sophisticated techniques, a classifying decision tree is crafted, enabling clearer decision-making boundaries within the tree structure. By incorporating the user's chronological trade entries, the model becomes adept at identifying critical junctures when psychological risks are heightened. The real-time nature of the calculations enhances the model's utility as a proactive tool, offering timely alerts to traders about impending moments of psychological risks. The implications of this research extend beyond the confines of currency trading, reaching into the realms of other industries where the judicious application of personalized modeling emerges as an efficient and strategic approach. This paper positions itself at the intersection of cutting-edge technology and the intricate nuances of human psychology, offering a transformative paradigm for decision making support in dynamic and high-pressure environments.

Anna A. Ivanova

Language models have become an essential part of the burgeoning field of AI Psychology. I discuss 14 methodological considerations that can help design more robust, generalizable studies evaluating the cognitive abilities of language-based AI systems, as well as to accurately interpret the results of these studies.

Augustyn Eckmann

Griffin Chure

The ubiquity of computation in modern scientific research inflicts new challenges for reproducibility. While most journals now require code and data be made available, the standards for organization, annotation, and validation remain lax, making the data and code often difficult to decipher or practically use. I believe that this is due to the documentation, collation, and validation of code and data only being done in retrospect. In this essay, I reflect on my experience contending with these challenges and present a philosophy for prioritizing reproducibility in modern biological research where balancing computational analysis and wet-lab experiments is commonplace. Modern tools used in scientific workflows (such as GitHub repositories) lend themselves well to this philosophy where reproducibility begins at project inception, not completion. To that end, I present and provide a programming-language agnostic template architecture that can be immediately copied and made bespoke to your next paper, whether your lab work is wet, dry, or somewhere in between.

Mark Larrimore

SherAli Tareen

<p class="first" id="d52527e67">This essay presents a broad overview of certain key works and intellectual trends that mark traditional scholarship on the Qur’an in South Asia, from the late medieval to the modern periods, roughly the fourteenth to the mid-twentieth centuries. Far from an exhaustive survey of any sort, what I have attempted instead is a preliminary and necessarily partial outline of the intellectual trajectory of Qur’an commentaries and translations in the South Asian context—in Arabic, Persian, and Urdu—with a view to exploring how shifting historical and political conditions informed new ways of engaging the Qur’an. My central argument is this: in South Asia, the early modern and modern periods saw an important shift from largely elite scholarship on the Qur’an, invariably conducted by scholars intimately bound to the imperial order of their time, to more selfconsciously popular works of translation and exegesis designed to access and attract a wider non-elite public. In this shift, I argue, translation itself emerged as an important and powerful medium of hermeneutical populism pregnant with the promise of broadening the boundaries of the Qur’an's readership and understanding. In other words, as the pendulum of political sovereignty gradually shifted from pre-colonial Islamicate imperial orders to British colonialism, new ways of imagining the role, function, and accessibility of the Qur’an also came into central view. A major emphasis of this essay is on the thought and contributions of the hugely influential eighteenth-century scholar Shah Wali Ullah (d. 1762) and his family on the intellectual topography of South Asian Qur’an commentaries and translations. </p>

David M. Wulff

Tənzilə Rüstəmxanlı

Azərbaycan ictimai-siyasi, ədəbi-nəzəri və bədii estetik fikri rus dilindən və Rusiyanın tərkibində Avropaya yaxınlaşmaq imkanından bəhrələnib, Qərbin mütərəqqi ideallarını cəmiyyətə gətirə bilirdi. Halbuki Rusiya həmin dövrdə öz müstəmləkəsini tarixi köklərdən ayırmaq üçün bütün imkanlarından istifadə edirdi. Bunun üçün bəzi tarixi faktları nəzərdən keçirmək kifayətdir: XIX əsrin başlanğıcından Şimali Azərbaycanda xalqın müqavimət və dirənişini boğmaqüçün hətta Azərbaycan sözünün dilə gətirilməsi qadağan edilmişdi.             Çarizmin yuxarıda göstərdiyimiz istiqamətlərdə fəaliyyəti birmənalı idi: Rusiya Azərbaycanda öz mövqelərini möhkəmlətmək üçün ilk mərhələdə erməniləri, almanları, polyakları bu torpaqlara köçürür, ümumi xristian müsəlman qarşıdurması yaratmaqla öz maraqlarını təmin etməyə çalışırdı. Rus hökuməti müqavimət və dirənişləri qan içində boğmaqdan çəkinmirdi. Bütün bunlara baxmayaraq, Şimali Azərbaycanın hər bir bölgəsində dalbadal üsyanlar, etirazlar, müqavimət hərəkatları baş alıb gedirdi. Ruslar işğal prosesində nəqədər manevrlərə, hiylə və məkrlərə əl atsalar da, qan və qırğınlardan yaxaqurtara bilmir, döyüş meydanlarında yerli əhali ilə üz-üzə gəlməli olurdu. Rusiya bu zaman beynəlxalq aləmdəki qarmaqarışıq və ziddiyyətli vəziyyətdən istifadə etməyə çalışır, xüsusən, XVIII əsrin II yarısından Rusiya tərəfindən ağır məğlubiyyətlərə düçar olan və 1799-cu il müqaviləsi ilə Cənubi Qafqazda baş verən hadisələrə müdaxilə etmək imkanını itirən Osmanlı İmperiyasının zəifləməsi çarizmin daha da şirnikləşməsinə səbəb olmuşdu.

Michał Kieling

Źródłem podstawowym powyższego opracowania jest tekst Konstytucji apostolskich (Consitutiones Apostolorum). Przedmiotem naszej analizy jest przede wszystkim VI księga tego dzieła zatytułowana: O schizmach i herezjach. Konstytucje apostolskie stanowią kompilację wcześniejszych tekstów jak: Didaskalia, Didache, Traditio Apostolica (nazwy te mogą zostać po łacinie). Celem opracowania jest przedstawienie poglądów na temat genezy herezji oraz postawy wobec heretyków.  Dzieło to składa się z ośmiu ksiąg i posiada przede wszystkim charakter prawno-liturgiczny. Zawiera ono również wiele wskazówek o charakterze doktrynalnym (teologicznym) i praktycznym, skierowanych do duchownych i świeckich. Konstytucje Apostolskie powstały w Antiochii ok. 380 roku. W tym czasie miasto to posiadało charakter wielokulturowy i przeżywało wielki rozwój, będąc silnym ośrodkiem kultury hellenistycznej, chrześcijańskiej i judaistycznej. Powyższy artykuł został poprzedzony wprowadzeniem i składa się z trzech części. W pierwszej części przedstawiono genezę herezji w Starym Testamencie. W drugiej  części ukazano początki herezji w chrześcijaństwie. Natomiast w trzeciej części zaprezentowano praktyczne wskazówki dotyczące postawy i relacji chrześcijan wobec herezji i heretyków. Analiza tekstu prowadzi do konkluzji, że odrzucenie Prawa i proroków, nauczania apostolskiego i prawowiernej doktryny Kościoła prowadzi do herezji. Konstytucje apostolskie  podkreślają szczególny autorytet św. Piotra jako biskupa Rzymu i nauczyciela wiary oraz apostolskość doktryny chrześcijańskiej.