Dogmatic Belief Research Articles

Вера и разум в индийской философии

The author focuses on the relationship between reason and faith in Indian philo­sophy. He divides the spectrum of possible philosophical views into three areas: 1) the excessive application of critical reasoning, which leads to the rejection of all faiths; 2) the common sense perspective; 3) uncritical adherence to faith. The author distinguishes between “belief” based on common sense and “faith” which is understood as acceptance of metaphysical beliefs. Gokhale speaks at length about pramāṇas (means of valid cognition), of which in India there were basically recognized three: direct perception (pratyakṣa), inference (anu­māna), and the testimony of verbal authority (śabda or āgama). Inferences were usually divided into empirical and non-empirical, and the latter could be used both to justify facts within this-worldly limits and metaphysical facts. Verbal evi­dence, in turn, was divided into ordinary and extraordinary. The former may serve to draw conclusions about “mundane” matters, while the latter are intended to justify dogmatic beliefs. To sum up, the author arranges Indian philosophical teachings as follows (in the direction from more rationalist to more adherent to faith): extreme skepticism, then the teachings of “the learned” Cārvākas (In­dian “materialists”) who accepted inference as means of valid cognition, then Buddhism, which was critical of matters of faith, Jainism, Nyāya-Vaiśeṣika, which used non-empirical inference to justify matters of faith, and finally – Mīmāṃsā, Vedānta, Vyākaraṇa (the teaching of the “Grammarians”), and the Dharmaśāstra which insisted on the primacy of faith and scripture

The Problem of Teaching the Science of Climate Change

This article discusses how to teach the science of climate change as a call for introducing critical thinking in science teacher education programs and professional development. It can be argued that to get a science student to develop his/her critical thinking skills to think outside the box, teachers must work to overcome the student's and their own dogmatic beliefs, hardened biases, and motivated and/or distorted reasoning. The article shows how teacher education programs and professional development providers should change their methods and strategies by providing a framework to overcome the key elements of the problem of teaching the science of climate change, and by providing some high-quality resources to teach this topic with practical ideas made available for teachers at all levels.

A Look at the Perception of Human and Civilizations in Friedrich Nietzsche’s Work Antichrist

Considering the perception lik a abilty to see, hear or become aware, in this research, focused upon a subject that has left a great mark on the world-wide literature and opened the door to great debates. This subject is mentioned in Nietzsche's famous work, ANTICHRIST. of man and person its nature of development your obstacles and this your obstacles How will be surpassed over One attempt to do has been studied. Same in time human being One individual and society One Part of its aspect civilization to be able to create in front of philosophical, religious, and political of your obstacle’s detection and this your determination to the reader reflection has been made. The main theme of this study while real politics and social of development According to Nietzsche, how it should be done was expressed. A pivotal aspect of Nietzsche’s analysis lies in the contradictory nature of the modern individual's consciousness and ignorance. Despite the allure of advancement, Nietzsche scrutinizes modernity’s superficial enlightenment, championing increased awareness and resilience against societal shortcomings. Nietzche challenges traditional notions of virtue, advocating for a shift away from rigid moral doctrines towards innate instincts and personal growth. Nietzsche’s discourse extends beyond mere criticism, promoting education, primal instincts, and nuanced comprehension of human development. Rejecting simplistic hierarchical frameworks, he attributes human advancement to intrinsic impulses rather than societal constructs. At the core of Nietzsche’s argument lies the concept of instinctual power, crucial for both societal progress and individual fulfillment. The study elucidates Nietzsche’s condemnation of compassion as an impediment to progress, echoing Aristotle’s insights. Nietzsche advocates for an unyielding stance against barriers hindering societal evolution, urging individuals to embrace self-esteem, self-affection, and autonomy. Nietzsche’s "Antichrist" provides profound reflections on humanity’s trajectory, urging a departure from dogmatic beliefs towards instinct-driven growth. The research underscores Nietzsche’s vision of a civilization harmonized with nature, liberated from societal constraints, and driven by individual integrity and primal instincts.

Religious Figures as Philosophers

This article looks at narratives of major religious figures to draw similarities with the philosophical way of dialogue, modeled on the maieutic example set by Socrates, and makes a case that these religious figures ought to be considered and appreciated as philosophers. The study employs Critical Discourse Analysis in order to understand the interactions between religious figures, protagonists, other characters, and the reader. Conclusions address philosophical attitudes and techniques that match the Socratic Method in order to build the case that the religious figure provokes thinking and challenges paradigm as a philosopher does. The examples include being agile in interpretation, using absurdity and paradox, playing with irony, teaching with allegory, to develop meaning in dialogue with the other. The origins of philosophy begin with a way of life, a method of provoking thinking, an interest in examining and questioning what it is to be human. Systemic philosophy and its closely related sister religion have developed into formal disciplines of distinguished paradigms, where dogmatic beliefs are prioritized over freedom of inquiry. Yet this study makes the case that important figures of major religions were working with their interlocutors on how to think, not what to think.

Translatability of Ancillary Antonymy in the Qur’an: A Lexicosyntactic Approach

Among Muslims there is a dogmatic belief in the linguistic inimitability of Qur’anic discourse that places limitations on its translatability at different linguistic levels and constitutes a minefield of hurdles when translating it between incongruous and incommensurable languages. One understudied linguistic level is the lexical-semantic level and one unstudied issue is the frames and functions of ancillary antonymy in the Qur’anic discourse. This article explores the translatability of ancillary antonym frames and functions from Qur’anic Arabic into English, using a lexicosyntactic approach to seven English translations available and accessible in the Quranic Arabic Corpus (QAC). Findings demonstrate that the Qur’an translators in focus are at great variance in rendering the syntactic frames and discourse functions of ancillary antonymy into English. There are also noticeable variations in the translatorial syntagmatic chains and paradigmatic choices as a result of adopting different translational strategies, notably explicitation, implicitation, domestication, foreignization, reproduction, substitution, and exonymy. The main conclusion is that ancillary antonym pairs co-occur within syntactic frames and co-perform discourse functions which must be attended and rendered into target texts.

A shot in the foot: Could chemical control of malaria vectors threaten food security?

Overwhelmingly, contemporary malaria vector control equals the use of chemical pesticides (through insecticide-treated bednets or indoor residual spraying). Gradually, but surely, we have become enslaved to thinking that controlling malaria mosquitoes equals the use of chemical insecticides, and much of the vector control field today is dominated by scientists, lobbyists, chemical companies, funding agencies and (global) institutions that endlessly repeat this dogmatic belief. Although chemical control has undoubtedly saved millions of lives, which, morally speaking would immediately justify its continued use, it has many sides that may ultimately cost more lives than it saves. Not only the cyclical problems with insecticide resistance, but also our increased understanding of the human and environmental health impacts of these chemicals, continue to raise red flags. Furthermore, the millions of kilogrammes of annual bednet waste (polyethylene, polypropylene) and bednet packaging material cannot be ignored. In recent years, an abundance of evidence that the use of chemical pesticides is a prime cause for the global decline in insect biodiversity and abundance has surfaced. The rate at which this decline is happening is frightening and may sooner rather than later threaten food production on a global scale. Should we opt for saving lives in the short term by using chemicals and face devastating and irrevocable long-term consequences or become wise(r) in the way we control malaria mosquitoes?

Warranted Catholic Belief

Extending Alvin Plantinga’s model of warranted belief to the beliefs of groups as a whole, I argue that if the dogmatic beliefs of the Catholic Church are true, they are also warranted. Catholic dogmas are warranted because they meet the three conditions of my model: they are formed (1) by ministers functioning properly (2) in accordance with a design plan that is oriented towards truth and reliable (3) in a social environment sufficiently similar to that for which they were designed. I show that according to Catholic doctrine the authoritative spokespersons of the Church—ecumenical councils and popes—meet these conditions when defining dogmas. I also respond to the objection that the warrant of Catholic dogmas is defeated by the plurality of non-Catholic Christian sects that deny Catholic dogmas.

GENDER POLITICS AND SELF-IDENTITY: A FEMINIST COMPARATIVE STUDY OF FAHMIDA RIAZ AND ADRIENNE RICH

This research investigates the aspect of gender politics and women’s self-identity through the comparative study of Fahmida Riaz’ collection of Poems Four Walls and a Black Veil and Adrienne Rich’s selected poems. Jacques Derrida’s concept of Binary Oppositions in deconstruction theory is the basic framework to conduct the study under feminist perspective. Since the construction of female gender, issues of women identity and their relevance with opposite male gender have raised many questions. The works of these Eastern and Western poets respectively encounter the universal truth of their subjugation as dependent creature in political and social dogmas where females have been assigned fixed gender roles of motherhood, sexuality and partisanship in undesirable pursuit. This classification of the binary assertions can be challenged and re investigated through various contextual lenses. The problem of gender politics and self-identity has been examined under the feminist perspective against structural binary of male/female as the fundamental viewpoint This research raises questions ;how Fahmida Riaz and Adrienne Rich dismantle their dogmatic beliefs, which tools they practice to reject fixed binary oppositions (bisexuality) and rethink feminism, and how concept of transcendence is deconstructed in Eastern and Western literature through social, cultural and political shifts. This research finds out the real practice of gender politics and women identity in both contexts with dissimilar and also a homogeneous approach of the writers in certain aspects. Keywords: Gender Politics, Self-identity, Binary Oppositions, Feminism, Social Dogma.

Fundamentalism as dogmatic belief, moral rigorism, and strong groupness across cultures: Dimensionality, underlying components, and related interreligious prejudice.

Fundamentalism as dogmatic belief, moral rigorism, and strong groupness across cultures: Dimensionality, underlying components, and related interreligious prejudice.

Denial of coevalness: charges of dogmatism in the nineteenth-century humanities

ABSTRACT Since the seventeenth century, scholars have been accusing each other of ‘dogmatism’. But what exactly did this mean? In exploring this question, this article focuses on philosophy and Biblical scholarship in nineteenth-century Germany. Scholars in both of these fields habitually contrasted Dogmatismus with Kritik, to the point of emplotting the history of their field as a gradual triumph of critical thinking over dogmatic belief. The article shows that charges of dogmatism derived much of their rhetorical force from such progressive narratives. Especially neo-Kantian philosophers and Biblical scholars of liberal Protestant persuasion liked to depict their opponents as clinging to long-superseded modes of thought, thereby implying that these colleagues harked back to a past from which modern Wissenschaft had emancipated itself. This ‘denial of coevalness’, as Johannes Fabian calls it, demonstrates to what extent the vice of dogmatism was imbued with normative visions of how the field or, more broadly, German intellectual life should develop.

Les vertiges cervicaux ont une réalité mais ce ne sont pas de vrais vertiges

Past controversies about the contribution of cervical spine to vertigo mainly resulted from confusion between vertigo and dizziness, and dogmatic belief that spine could not contribute to such conditions. In fact, whereas cervical disorders cannot induce vertigo with nystagmus (which are only explained by ENT or neurological disorders) they can conversely contribute to induce dizziness, through two main mechanisms: (1) impingement of vertebral artery during extremes or brisk cervical rotations (bow-hunter syndrome), especially in patients with loops of vertebral artery or arcuate foramen (ossification of atlo-occiptal ligament on the posterior aspect of axis, making an osseous arch around the vertebral artery). Marked sagittal C1-C2 instability can also reduce flow in vertebral arteries; (2) various abnormal proprioceptive inputs from cervical discs, uncus, zygapophyseal joints, muscles and ligaments or fascias, like the occipito-cervical membrane, can also foster dizziness. Patients with dizziness of putative cervical origin must first be examined by an ENT physician, and neurologist could also be asked to check for alternative explanations before classifying the dizziness as arising partly from the cervical spine and related structures. This possibility should not be denied, moreover as some spine surgery can induce a marked improvement of those dizziness in properly selected patients.

Examination of Elementary School Students’ Scientific Attitudes and Intellectual Risk Taking Behaviours

Science Education International ¦ Volume 32 ¦ Issue 2 149 ORIGINAL ARTICLE INTRODUCTION Science classes in elementary schools should seek to enable students to engage in scientific thinking, encourage them to perform work on basic sciences, and positively develop their attitudes toward science classes with a positive educational environment. Studies related to both the healthy construction of classroom environments and attitudes have a long history (Gardner, 1975; Ma and Bateson, 1999; Toma et al., 2019; Zhang and Campbell, 2011). Wang and Berlin (2010) indicated that attitudes toward science are effective factors in attaining goals of science education. In addition, they reported that these factors affect student motivation. According to Zhang and Campbell (2011), scientific attitudes of students also direct their interest in lessons and simultaneously affect their long-term success in courses. Attitude, as an affective domain of learning, is an element affecting learning outputs of students in science courses (Ministry of National Education, 2018). Accordingly, the importance of performing attitude studies emerges with regard to obtaining positive outputs on scientific attitude. Individuals with scientific attitudes have inquisitive and argumentative characteristics; therefore, they do not fall prey to preconceptions or dogmatic belief systems. Individuals with positive scientific attitudes are more willing to identify and solve the problems in their surroundings, as well as being willing to search for solutions. In addition, while scientific attitudes may help an individual to be successful, they also support his or her continual improvement by affecting his or her thinking (Demirbaş and Yağbasan, 2006). In this study, the effect of a different variable on attitude was examined by focusing on the relationship between scientific attitudes and intellectual risk-taking behaviors of elementary school students. Theoretical Background While an individual’s attitude cannot always be observed precisely, it largely directs love, hate, and the ideas of the individual (Morgan, 2005). Munby (1980) examined scientific attitudes in four categories as attitudes toward school science, attitudes toward science careers, attitudes toward science itself, and attitudes toward specific issues in science. This examination, indeed, emphasizes the importance of attitudes in terms of long-term learning and indifference toward science or the development of deep understandings (Hong and Lin, 2011). Gardner (1975), however, divided such attitudes into two, as attitudes toward science and scientific attitudes. Moreover, the scientific attitudes included within the context of this study were expressed as a mixture of the will to know and understand, inquiring attitudes, data collection and sense-making, and evaluation and interpretation of results (Education In this study, the relationship between scientific attitudes and intellectual risk-taking behaviors of fourth-grade students in elementary school in Turkey was examined. A total of 184 students participated in the study, which was conducted based on a survey model. For data collection, the “Scientific Attitude Inventory” and the “Intellectual Risk-Taking and Perceptions About Its Predictors Scale in Science Education” were utilized. Descriptive statistical analyses and t-test, ANOVA, simple linear regression, and multiple regression analyses were utilized for the analysis of the data. As a result of this data analysis, it was observed that these elementary school students have scientific attitudes at the “not sure” level and have intellectual risk-taking behaviors at the “mostly correct” level. Gender was not observed to have an effect on scientific attitude; however, it was effective on intellectual risk-taking behavior. In addition, the analysis results demonstrated that there is a meaningful difference between intellectual risk-taking behaviors of students and the educational levels of their fathers. Moreover, when the relations between other pairs of variables were examined, the variables of intellectual risk-taking, gender, educational level of the mother, and educational level of the father together had low-level but meaningful relations with the scientific attitudes of elementary school students. It was indicated that teachers will contribute to students’ adoption of positive scientific attitudes by introducing the lives and studies of scientists, and it was suggested that the effect of changes in educational patterns in classroom environments be examined through experimental studies on intellectual risk-taking behaviors of students. With the results obtained from this study, more light can be shed on what should be done to support students’ intellectual risk-taking behaviors.

Cost-effective banana (musa paradisiaca) waste management and the welfare of banana farmers in Kakamega county Kenya

Horticultural waste management is global war that must be won particularly in Kenya. Utilisation of banana waste can mitigate the dwindling welfare of banana farmers in Kakamega County. Unlike India’s preferred processing approach, on-farm management of banana waste was a cost-effective strategy compatible to Kenya given the Climate change and Covid-19 pandemics. Unfortunately, knowledge on fitting 7Rs denoted by reducing, rethinking, refusing, recycling, reusing, repairing and refilling strategy onto the banana waste generated; banana waste utilisation technologies; and challenges of on-farm banana waste management was scanty in Kakamega County. Therefore, this paper examined the influence of cost-effective banana waste management on the welfare of banana farmers in Kakamega County, Kenya. It particularly established the: on-farm and off-farm weight of banana waste; appropriate innovative on-farm banana waste utilisation; and on-farm banana waste management challenges experienced in Kakamega County, Kenya. Across sectional design was adopted. A purposive sample of 150 from 600 banana farmers with at least 100 banana plants was studied. Frequency tables and plates were used to analyse data Kakamega County. Primary data was complemented by Key informants and secondary sources. The results revealed that out of the 7Rs, reuse, reduce and refill (3Rs) facilitated banana waste management. The weights of peeled banana fruit and waste were 10.1% and 89.9% of the entire banana plant respectively. Banana waste was the driver of integrated organic innovative crop farming, animal husbandry and agro-forestry. Dogmatic beliefs and low agricultural innovation adoption rate hindered banana waste utilization. It is concluded that 7Rs minimized the quantity; enhanced utilization; and mitigated challenges of banana waste, culminating to the improved welfare of banana farmers. Adoption of optimal innovative cleaner banana production technologies to streamline the 7Rs was recommended to achieve sustainable banana waste management and improve livelihoods in Kenya.

Tissue‐specific roles of cardiolipin in the control of systemic energy homeostasis

The mitochondrial inner membrane is a dynamic interface that supports bioenergetic processes, intracellular communication, and transport of metabolites, lipids, and ions. The phospholipid, cardiolipin, is one of the defining components of this membrane and is classically ascribed an indispensable role in mitochondrial structure and function. Disruption of cardiolipin biology is causally linked to numerous pathophysiologies, including diabetes, nonalcoholic fatty liver disease, Parkinson's disease, and, most notably, Barth syndrome. Yet how cardiolipin controls the metabolic functions of different tissues and how these tissues respond to loss of cardiolipin remains largely unknown. Therefore, we generated inducible gain and loss-of-function genetic models of cardiolipin synthesis in tissues with predominantly uncoupled (i.e. brown adipose) or coupled (i.e. skeletal muscle) mitochondria. We found that tissue-specific loss of cardiolipin had dramatically different outcomes on respiration and whole-body metabolic homeostasis. Cardiolipin deficiency in brown adipocytes significantly reduced organismal insulin sensitivity and glucose tolerance, whereas loss of cardiolipin in skeletal muscle unexpectedly improved glycemic control. Moreover, in contrast to the dogmatic belief that cardiolipin is ubiquitously required for mitochondrial function, we found that certain skeletal muscle fiber types fully retained respiratory capacity in the face of cardiolipin depletion through adaptive measures. Our collective findings on tissue-specific roles of cardiolipin reshape the fundamental understanding of mitochondrial structure and function with potential therapeutic implications for phospholipid disorders.

The cognitive and perceptual correlates of ideological attitudes: a data-driven approach.

Although human existence is enveloped by ideologies, remarkably little is understood about the relationships between ideological attitudes and psychological traits. Even less is known about how cognitive dispositions—individual differences in how information is perceived and processed— sculpt individuals' ideological worldviews, proclivities for extremist beliefs and resistance (or receptivity) to evidence. Using an unprecedented number of cognitive tasks (n = 37) and personality surveys (n = 22), along with data-driven analyses including drift-diffusion and Bayesian modelling, we uncovered the specific psychological signatures of political, nationalistic, religious and dogmatic beliefs. Cognitive and personality assessments consistently outperformed demographic predictors in accounting for individual differences in ideological preferences by 4 to 15-fold. Furthermore, data-driven analyses revealed that individuals’ ideological attitudes mirrored their cognitive decision-making strategies. Conservatism and nationalism were related to greater caution in perceptual decision-making tasks and to reduced strategic information processing, while dogmatism was associated with slower evidence accumulation and impulsive tendencies. Religiosity was implicated in heightened agreeableness and risk perception. Extreme pro-group attitudes, including violence endorsement against outgroups, were linked to poorer working memory, slower perceptual strategies, and tendencies towards impulsivity and sensation-seeking—reflecting overlaps with the psychological profiles of conservatism and dogmatism. Cognitive and personality signatures were also generated for ideologies such as authoritarianism, system justification, social dominance orientation, patriotism and receptivity to evidence or alternative viewpoints; elucidating their underpinnings and highlighting avenues for future research. Together these findings suggest that ideological worldviews may be reflective of low-level perceptual and cognitive functions.This article is part of the theme issue ‘The political brain: neurocognitive and computational mechanisms’.

Interrelationships Between Urdu Fiction And Travelogue

If we examine the structure, form, elements, and shape of important genres of Urdu fiction (fable, novel, short story, drama), common traits and features can be found in fiction and travelogue despite their factual and predetermined generic individuality and status. Nonetheless, according to the artistic requirements of genres mentioned in these common traits, there can be a difference of length, material, characters and events, reality and imagination, supernatural elements and scientific approach, scene and background, style and form; and it should be. But important elements like plot, story, events, characters, qualities, and drawbacks of character, love, adventure, the eternal conflict between good and evil, ethics, romance, realism, social norms, dogmatic beliefs, historical and scientific facts, narration, diction, similes and metaphors, proverbial style, clarity, formal way of writing, dialogues, screenwriting, artistic features of language and narration, objectivity and philosophy of life can be found in fiction one way or the other with a little bit difference of structural requirements.

Does the Long‐Contested Question of Orthodox Ecumenism Remain Open after Crete?

AbstractThe article explores whether the Orthodox Council of Crete (2016) resolved longstanding tensions within Orthodoxy over ecumenism. The article first attempts to pinpoint the substance of the disagreement. The anti‐ecumenist position, the article claims, rests on a dogmatic belief that a communion formally separated from the Orthodox Church can only continue to lose grace and the ecclesial gifts of the Spirit, while ecumenists hold that another communion might recover or increase in such gifts even prior to formal reunification with Orthodoxy. The article then explores the much‐disputed use of the word ‘church’ for other Christian communions in the document ‘Relations of the Orthodox Church with the Rest of the Christian World’. If it is true, as many on both sides of the controversy have suggested, that the Council formally affirmed the pro‐ecumenist position, does this make anti‐ecumenism a no longer viable Orthodox stance? This depends on the Council’s status, a further contested matter on which the article concludes with some tentative reflections.

Julius Wagner von Jauregg, Otto Diem and research methods for assessing the contributions of hereditary burden to mental illness risk: 1902-1906.

After decades of methodological stasis in 19th century psychiatric genetics, when uncontrolled studies reported high rates of hereditary burden in hospitalized patients, Koller completed the first controlled study in 1895. We pick up this narrative 7 years later when the well-known Julius Wagner v. Jauregg published a biting critique of the then current psychiatric genetics' literature. In 1905, partially in response to Wagner v. Jauregg, Otto Diem attempted to replicate and extend Koller's study. Wagner v. Jauregg then wrote a follow-up to his earlier critique in 1906, commenting on Diem's investigation. Themes discussed in this point-counterpoint included the necessity of statistical methods to draw meaningful conclusions about the impact of hereditary burden on mental illness, the required sample size and proper selection of controls, the classes of relatives which should optimally be studied, the problems of obtaining accurate information on familial illnesses, the nature of the disorders in families which contribute to mental illness risk and the common unquestioned dogmatic belief that insanity is very often due to hereditary causes. Both Wagner v. Jauregg and Diem spoke out forcefully against the common assumption that hereditary burden operated in a deterministic fashion and emphasized the need to consider other causes of illness.

What do project management practitioners think governance is? A study on perceptions in Queensland, Australia

PurposeTo determine if there is confusion in governance terminology amongst experienced management and project management practitioners.Design/methodology/approachPractitioner interviews and subsequent analysis.FindingsSignificant differences in governance terminology were found. The participants had nevertheless arrived at similar operating arrangements for their committees, even though they came from different segments of different industries and did not agree on the definition of governance. It was possible to develop a list of working parameters for operation of these committees from their responses. The labelling of committees associated with governance as steering or decision-making was found to be problematic and various causes/motivations for the differing definitions of governance having arisen were detected. These ranged from altruism, through dogmatic belief in particular frameworks, to enhancing career prospects/ego.Research limitations/implicationsThe sample came from organisations and industries in one state in one country. The need for review of governance terminology used in various project management practitioner reference documents and methodologies was identified.Practical implicationsProjects and business alike can potentially achieve improvements in efficiency and effectiveness through consistency of terminology and the clarity this brings to governance arrangements and committee operations.Social implicationsCreation of a unifying feature within the project and management literature, shifting the understanding of governance and its boundaries and limitations. This will help progress governance from complexity to simplicity, from an art to an understandable practice, from a concept that has been hijacked for partisan and political gain to a lean social tool which can be put to use for the benefit of organisations, whether public, charitable or private.Originality/valueThe value is clarity – resulting in the avoidance of confusion and misunderstanding together with their consequent waste of time, resources and money.

Tissue‐specific roles of cardiolipin in the control of systemic energy homeostasis

The mitochondrial inner membrane is a dynamic interface that supports bioenergetic processes, intracellular communication, and transport of metabolites, lipids, and ions. The phospholipid, cardiolipin, is one of the most enriched components of this membrane and is classically ascribed an indispensable role in mitochondrial structure and function. Disruption of cardiolipin biology is causally linked to numerous pathophysiologies, including diabetes, nonalcoholic fatty liver disease, Parkinson’s disease, and Barth syndrome. Yet how cardiolipin controls metabolic function of individual mammalian tissues remains largely unknown. Therefore, we generated conditional genetic models with cardiolipin synthesis deficiency in tissues with predominantly uncoupled (i.e. brown adipose) or coupled (i.e. skeletal muscle) mitochondria. We found that tissue‐specific loss of cardiolipin had dramatically different outcomes on respiration and systemic energy homeostasis. Cardiolipin deficiency in brown adipose significantly reduced organismal insulin sensitivity and glucose tolerance, whereas loss of cardiolipin in skeletal muscle unexpectedly improved glycemic control. Moreover, in contrast to the dogmatic belief that cardiolipin is ubiquitously required, we found that certain skeletal muscle fiber types retained respiratory capacity in the face of cardiolipin depletion through mitochondrial biogenesis and fiber‐type switching. Our collective findings on tissue‐specific roles of cardiolipin reshape the fundamental understanding of mitochondrial structure and function with potential therapeutic implications for phospholipid disorders.Support or Funding InformationNovo Nordisk Foundation and the European Research Council (aCROBAT 639382)