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In the Harvard lectures of 1924–1925, Alfred North Whitehead proposed that our various intellectual activities amounted to an attempt to understand the world and our experiences through hypothesizing. He explained the importance of hypothesis in scientific research and extended the idea of hypothesis to the philosophical method called "speculative philosophy." For Whitehead, philosophy was the attempt to formulate general hypotheses that can transcend disciplines. This paper is intended to explore the possible influence of Victorian philosophers on Whitehead. Victorian philosophers such as John Herschel, William Whewell, and John Stuart Mill discussed the role of hypothesis in scientific discovery. Was Whitehead aware of this tradition? Was he influenced by it? This article indicates that Whitehead at least indirectly inherited the Victorian idea of hypothesis, notably in the thought of Whewell, as mediated by Charles Darwin.

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The article deals with a recent attack by Sam Harris on two famous arguments that purport to establish a gap between factual and evaluative statements—Hume's Is-Ought Problem and Moore's Open Question Argument. I present the arguments, analyze the relationship between them and critically assess Harris' attempt to refute them. I conclude that Harris' attempt fails.

A wide‐held assumption is that increased religiousness is associated with stronger perceptions of a conflict between religion and science. This article examines this assumption using four distinct questions asked on the third wave of the National Study of Youth and Religion (NSYR). Results indicate a variety of viewpoints for constructing the relationship between science and religion, rather than a simple conflict‐compatibility continuum. Further, findings suggest that increased religiousness among emerging adults is associated with a stronger agreement in science and religion's compatibility, rather than conflict. Incorporating New Age or non‐Western spiritual tradition and a strict adherence to fundamentalist Christian doctrine are associated with complex configurations of beliefs on the relationship between religion and science. Collectively, the findings among emerging adults contradict traditional assumptions about how religious experiences influence beliefs, suggesting that such social factors may influence beliefs and attitudes uniquely at different points in the lifecourse or across generations. More broadly, the findings speak to the ongoing debate about the extent to which differing social experiences may produce consistent or discordant sets of beliefs and values, and in turn how particular configurations may impact strategies of action across a range of life domains.

Los avances económicos y tecnológicos han generado consecuencias contradictorias en la sociedad globalizada, pues si bien de una parte han permitido mejorar las condiciones materiales de vida, de otra, han propiciado ambientes que degradan las relaciones sociales básicas y que no favorecen el bienestar personal y comunitario; las dinámicas socio-políticas del mundo moderno y posmoderno implican la participación de los sujetos en múltiples redes de interacción. Desde este ámbito, en este artículo se reflexiona en torno al conjunto de informaciones, servicios, bienes, vínculos afectivos y otros recursos accesibles a un individuo o colectivo como consecuencia de su pertenencia a determinadas redes de información, poniendo de relieve los recursos que personas y comunidades pueden movilizar colectivamente para la obtención de mejoras sociales.