Sentences with phrase «nature of cultural phenomena»

Collin — here's a great article on Daniel Dennett's research into «the self - sustaining nature of cultural phenomena»

Not exact matches

Our Road from Regensburg column and lead letter show how in the abuse crisis the permissive media have thrown their significant cultural power behind the idea that there is an intrinsic link between the phenomenon of priestly abuse and the nature of the Church.

The extraordinary phenomenon of the sustained birth of modern science in Western culture, however, is linked with meticulous investigation to the cultural influence of monotheism and the Christian doctrine of creation exnihilo - a doctrine which both upheld the contingent, linear development of creation and its rationality through the existence of the physical laws of nature, or «secondary causes», without thereby undermining God's omnipotence.

Featuring an incredible senstation of scale, a solid, thought - provoking story on nature and genetics, a raoring score from Sir John Willaims, and some of the most cutting edge visual effects of all time, the movie was a cultural phenomenon that got the entire world talking about dinosaurs again.

My point was that, if we accept this basic story (it's too simple, even as an account of how cultural cognition works; but that's in the nature of «models» & should give us pause only when the simplification detracts from rather than enhances our ability to predict and manage the dynamics of the phenomenon in question), then there's no reason to view the valences of the cultural meanings attached to crediting climate change risk as fixed or immutable.