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A Phenomenological Challenge to "Enlightened Secularism" (2013)
Journal Article
Kidd, I. J. (2013). A Phenomenological Challenge to "Enlightened Secularism". Religious Studies, 49(3), 377-398. https://doi.org/10.1017/s0034412512000327

This article challenges Philip Kitcher's recent proposals for an ‘enlightened secularism’. I use William James's theory of the emotions and his related discussion of ‘temperaments’ to argue that religious and naturalistic commitments are grounded in... Read More about A Phenomenological Challenge to "Enlightened Secularism".

Can illness be edifying? (2012)
Journal Article
Kidd, I. J. (2012). Can illness be edifying?. Inquiry, 55(5), 496-520. https://doi.org/10.1080/0020174x.2012.716203

Rethinking Feyerabend: The “Worst Enemy of Science”? (2011)
Journal Article
Kidd, I. J. (2011). Rethinking Feyerabend: The “Worst Enemy of Science”?. PLoS Biology, 9(10), Article e1001166. https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pbio.1001166