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Author : Helen De Cruz
Release : 2016
Genre : Cognitive science
Kind : eBook
Book Rating : 812/5 ( reviews)
Book Synopsis Advances in Religion, Cognitive Science, and Experimental Philosophy by : Helen De Cruz
Download or read book Advances in Religion, Cognitive Science, and Experimental Philosophy written by Helen De Cruz. This book was released on 2016. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Helen De Cruz
Release : 2016-01-28
Genre : Philosophy
Kind : eBook
Book Rating : 826/5 ( reviews)
Book Synopsis Advances in Religion, Cognitive Science, and Experimental Philosophy by : Helen De Cruz
Download or read book Advances in Religion, Cognitive Science, and Experimental Philosophy written by Helen De Cruz. This book was released on 2016-01-28. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Experimental philosophy has blossomed into a variety of philosophical fields including ethics, epistemology, metaphysics and philosophy of language. But there has been very little experimental philosophical research in the domain of philosophy of religion. Advances in Religion, Cognitive Science, and Experimental Philosophy demonstrates how cognitive science of religion has the methodological and conceptual resources to become a form of experimental philosophy of religion. Addressing a wide variety of empirical claims that are of interest to philosophers and psychologists of religion, a team of psychologists and philosophers apply data from the psychology of religion to important problems in the philosophy of religion including the psychology of religious diversity; the psychology of substance dualism; the problem of evil and the relation between religious belief and empathy; and the cognitive science explaining the formation of intuitions that unwittingly guide philosophers of religion when formulating arguments. Bringing together authors and researchers who have made important contributions to interdisciplinary research on religion in the last decade, Advances in Religion, Cognitive Science, and Experimental Philosophy provides new ways of approaching core philosophical and psychological problems.
Author : Helen De Cruz
Release : 2016-01-28
Genre : Philosophy
Kind : eBook
Book Rating : 834/5 ( reviews)
Book Synopsis Advances in Religion, Cognitive Science, and Experimental Philosophy by : Helen De Cruz
Download or read book Advances in Religion, Cognitive Science, and Experimental Philosophy written by Helen De Cruz. This book was released on 2016-01-28. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Experimental philosophy has blossomed into a variety of philosophical fields including ethics, epistemology, metaphysics and philosophy of language. But there has been very little experimental philosophical research in the domain of philosophy of religion. Advances in Religion, Cognitive Science, and Experimental Philosophy demonstrates how cognitive science of religion has the methodological and conceptual resources to become a form of experimental philosophy of religion. Addressing a wide variety of empirical claims that are of interest to philosophers and psychologists of religion, a team of psychologists and philosophers apply data from the psychology of religion to important problems in the philosophy of religion including the psychology of religious diversity; the psychology of substance dualism; the problem of evil and the relation between religious belief and empathy; and the cognitive science explaining the formation of intuitions that unwittingly guide philosophers of religion when formulating arguments. Bringing together authors and researchers who have made important contributions to interdisciplinary research on religion in the last decade, Advances in Religion, Cognitive Science, and Experimental Philosophy provides new ways of approaching core philosophical and psychological problems.
Author : Mark Graves
Release : 2016-04-22
Genre : Religion
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Book Rating : 863/5 ( reviews)
Book Synopsis Mind, Brain and the Elusive Soul by : Mark Graves
Download or read book Mind, Brain and the Elusive Soul written by Mark Graves. This book was released on 2016-04-22. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Does science argue against the existence of the human soul? Many scientists and scholars believe the whole is more than the sum of the parts. This book uses information and systems theory to describe the "more" that does not reduce to the parts. One sees this in the synapses”or apparently empty gaps between the neurons in one's brain”where informative relationships give rise to human mind, culture, and spirituality. Drawing upon the disciplines of cognitive science, computer science, neuroscience, general systems theory, pragmatic philosophy, and Christian theology, Mark Graves reinterprets the traditional doctrine of the soul as form of the body to frame contemporary scientific study of the human soul.
Author : Fraser Watts
Release : 2014-03-20
Genre : Religion
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Book Rating : 443/5 ( reviews)
Book Synopsis Evolution, Religion, and Cognitive Science by : Fraser Watts
Download or read book Evolution, Religion, and Cognitive Science written by Fraser Watts. This book was released on 2014-03-20. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The cognitive science of religion is an inherently heterogeneous subject, incorporating theory and data from anthropology, psychology, sociology, evolutionary biology, and philosophy of mind amongst other subjects. One increasingly influential area of research in this field is concerned specifically with exploring the relationship between the evolution of the human mind, the evolution of culture in general, and the origins and subsequent development of religion. This research has exerted a strong influence on many areas of religious studies over the last twenty years, but, for some, the so-called 'evolutionary cognitive science of religion' remains a deeply problematic enterprise. This book's primary aim is to engage critically and constructively with this complex and diverse body of research from a wide range of perspectives. To these ends, the book brings together authors from a variety of relevant disciplines, in the thorough exploration of many of the key debates in the field. These include, for example: can certain aspects of religion be considered adaptive, or are they evolutionary by-products? Is the evolutionary cognitive science of religion compatible with theism? Is the evolutionary cognitive approach compatible with other, more traditional approaches to the study of religion? To what extent is religion shaped by cultural evolutionary processes? Is the evolutionary account of the mind that underpins the evolutionary cognitive approach the best or only available account? Written in accessible language, with an introductory chapter by Ilkka Pyssiäinen, a leading scholar in the field, this book is a valuable resource for specialists, undergraduate and graduate students, and newcomers to the evolutionary cognitive science of religion.
