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Learning emotional dialects: A British population study of cross-cultural communication (2023)
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Tsikandilakis, M., Bali, P., Lanfranco, R. C., Kausel, L., Yu, Z., Boncompte, G., …Derrfuss, J. (2023). Learning emotional dialects: A British population study of cross-cultural communication. Perception, 52(11-12), 812-843. https://doi.org/10.1177/03010066231204180

The aim of the current research was to explore whether we can improve the recognition of cross-cultural freely-expressed emotional faces in British participants. We tested several methods for improving the recognition of freely-expressed emotional fa... Read More about Learning emotional dialects: A British population study of cross-cultural communication.

Proximate and Ultimate Concerns in Christian Ethical Responses to Artificial Intelligence (2023)
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Burdett, M. S. (2023). Proximate and Ultimate Concerns in Christian Ethical Responses to Artificial Intelligence. Studies in Christian Ethics, 36(3), 620–641. https://doi.org/10.1177/09539468231180135

I argue here that Christian ethical responses to Artificial Intelligence (AI) ought to take on, largely, two different approaches. The first considers proximate ethical concerns related to AI. This ethical approach most often considers more immediate... Read More about Proximate and Ultimate Concerns in Christian Ethical Responses to Artificial Intelligence.

The Machine in the Ghost: Transhumanism and the Ontology of Information (2023)
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Burdett, M., & Leung, K. H. (2023). The Machine in the Ghost: Transhumanism and the Ontology of Information. Zygon, 58(3), 714-731. https://doi.org/10.1111/zygo.12886

An ontology of information belies our common intuitions about reality today and animates and governs both explicit scholarly study in philosophy and the sciences as well as the ideologies that are growing out of them. Transhumanism is one such techno... Read More about The Machine in the Ghost: Transhumanism and the Ontology of Information.

Economy of Grace and the Infinite Circle: A Theological Reception of the Social Evolutionary Origins of Gratitude (2022)
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Burdett, M., & Burdett, E. (2122). Economy of Grace and the Infinite Circle: A Theological Reception of the Social Evolutionary Origins of Gratitude. Philosophy, Theology and the Sciences, 9(1), 119-135. https://doi.org/10.1628/ptsc-2022-0009

This article considers the social evolutionary research on gratitude and reciprocity and focuses on two mechanisms, upstream reciprocity and increased gratitude to strangers, that have strong consonance with various theological accounts of gift-givin... Read More about Economy of Grace and the Infinite Circle: A Theological Reception of the Social Evolutionary Origins of Gratitude.

Incarnation, Posthumanism and Performative Anthropology: The Body of Technology and the Body of Christ (2021)
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Burdett, M. S. (2022). Incarnation, Posthumanism and Performative Anthropology: The Body of Technology and the Body of Christ. Christian Bioethics, 28(3), 207-216. https://doi.org/10.1093/cb/cbab009

This essay argues that a Christian incarnational response to posthumanism must recognize that what is at stake isn't just whether belief systems align. It seeks to relocate the interaction between the church and posthumanism to how the practices of p... Read More about Incarnation, Posthumanism and Performative Anthropology: The Body of Technology and the Body of Christ.

Niche Construction and the Functional Model of the Image of God (2020)
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Burdett, M. (2020). Niche Construction and the Functional Model of the Image of God. Philosophy, Theology and the Sciences, 7(2), 158-180. https://doi.org/10.1628/ptsc-2020-0015

The functional model of the image of God (FMIG), until recently, has often been overlooked in science-engaged theology and this is unwarranted. First, because it most closely follows the Genesis text out of which the very concept of the image of God... Read More about Niche Construction and the Functional Model of the Image of God.

Personhood and Creation in an Age of Robots and AI: Can We Say “You” to Artifacts? (2020)
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BURDETT, M. (2020). Personhood and Creation in an Age of Robots and AI: Can We Say “You” to Artifacts?. Zygon, 55(2), 347-360. https://doi.org/10.1111/zygo.12595

This paper explores the extent to which the I-You relation should be applied to domains other than the human and the divine focusing particularly on artefacts and technology. Drawing first on the work of Martin Buber, Gabriel Marcel and Martin Heideg... Read More about Personhood and Creation in an Age of Robots and AI: Can We Say “You” to Artifacts?.

Personhood and Creation in an Age of Robots and AI: Can We Say “You” to Artefacts? (2020)
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Burdett, M. (2020). Personhood and Creation in an Age of Robots and AI: Can We Say “You” to Artefacts?. Zygon, 55(2), 347-360. https://doi.org/10.1111/zygo.12595

This paper explores the extent to which the I-You relation should be applied to domains other than the human and the divine focusing particularly on artefacts and technology. Drawing first on the work of Martin Buber, Gabriel Marcel and Martin Heideg... Read More about Personhood and Creation in an Age of Robots and AI: Can We Say “You” to Artefacts?.

Creatures bound for glory: Biotechnological enhancement and visions of human flourishing (2019)
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Burdett, M., & Lorrimar, V. (2019). Creatures bound for glory: Biotechnological enhancement and visions of human flourishing. Studies in Christian Ethics, 32(2), 241-253. https://doi.org/10.1177/0953946819827141

© The Author(s) 2019. The human enhancement debate is fundamentally based on divergent ideals of human flourishing. Using the complementary, though often contrasting, foci of creaturehood and deification as fundamental to the good life, we examine th... Read More about Creatures bound for glory: Biotechnological enhancement and visions of human flourishing.

A Theological Cartography of Cultural Evolution (2017)
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Hays, C., & Burdett, M. (2017). A Theological Cartography of Cultural Evolution. Theology and Science, 15(4), 473-489. https://doi.org/10.1080/14746700.2017.1369760

This article maps key points of contact between Christian doctrine and recent advances in cultural evolution. Beginning with theological anthropology, the article shows that cultural evolution problematizes purely substantive accounts of the image of... Read More about A Theological Cartography of Cultural Evolution.

Assessing the field of science and religion: advice from the next generation (2017)
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Burdett, M. S. (2017). Assessing the field of science and religion: advice from the next generation. Zygon, 52(3), 747-763. https://doi.org/10.1111/zygo.12352

© 2017 by the Joint Publication Board of Zygon The field of science and religion is undergoing a transition today requiring assessment of its past movements and identifying its future trajectories by the next generation of science and religion schola... Read More about Assessing the field of science and religion: advice from the next generation.

The Image of God and Human Uniqueness: Challenges from the Biological and Information Sciences (2015)
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Burdett, M. S. (2015). The Image of God and Human Uniqueness: Challenges from the Biological and Information Sciences. Expository Times, 127(1), 3-10. https://doi.org/10.1177/0014524615598675

The image of God is the doctrinal home of human uniqueness. Indeed, the Genesis text indicates that the image of God is decisively what separates human beings from the rest of creation and helps to define the human being as a special creature in the... Read More about The Image of God and Human Uniqueness: Challenges from the Biological and Information Sciences.