The Roots of Religion

Exploring the Cognitive Science of Religion
Herausgeber: Trigg, Roger; Barrett, Justin L

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Produktbeschreibung

The cognitive science of religion is a new discipline that looks at the roots of religious belief in the cognitive architecture of the human mind. This book deals with the philosophical and theological implications of the cognitive science of religion which grounds religious belief in human cognitive structures: religious belief is 'natural', in a way that even scientific thought is not. Philosophers and theologians from North America, UK and Australia, explore the alleged conflict between truth claims and examine the roots of religion in human nature.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Taylor & Francis
• Seitenzahl: 242
• Erscheinungstermin: 19. Dezember 2014
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 234mm x 156mm x 16mm
• Gewicht: 526g
• ISBN-13: 9781472427311
• ISBN-10: 1472427319
• Artikelnr.: 44799249

Autorenporträt

Roger Trigg is Emeritus Professor of Philosophy, University of Warwick, and Senior Research Fellow at the Ian Ramsey Centre, University of Oxford. He was the Founding President of the British Society of the Philosophy of Religion, and from 2008-10 was President of the European Society for Philosophy of Religion. The author of many books on the philosophy of religion and the philosophy of science, his most recent have been Equality, Freedom and Religion (2012) and Religious Diversity: Philosophical and Political Dimensions (2014). Justin L. Barrett is the Thrive Professor of Developmental Science at Fuller Seminary's Graduate School of Psychology, where he directs the Thrive Center for Human Development. He is also a research associate of Oxford University's School of Anthropology & Museum Ethnography. He is author of scores of academic articles and book chapters concerning cognitive science of religion and three books: Why Would Anyone Believe in God? (2004); Cognitive Science, Religion, & Theology (2011); and Born Believers: The Science of Children's Religious Beliefs (2012).

Inhaltsangabe

1 Cognitive and Evolutionary Studies of Religion Justin L. Barrett and
Roger Trigg 2 Intuition, Agency Detection, and Social Coordination as
Analytical and Explanatory Constructs in the Cognitive Science of Religion
Robert Audi 3 Whose Intuitions? Which Dualism? Steven Horst 4 Explaining
Religion at Different Levels: From Fundamentalism to Pluralism Aku Visala
5 HADD, Determinism and Epicureanism: An Interdisciplinary Investigation
Robin Attfield 6 Understanding 'Person' Talk: When is it Appropriate to
Think in Terms of Persons? Graham Wood 7 Knowledge and the Objection to
Religious Belief from Cognitive Science Kelly James Clark and Dani
Rabinowitz 8 Assessing the Third Way Jason Marsh 9 Cognitive Science of
Religion and the Rationality of Classical Theism T.J. Mawson 10 Cognitive
Science and the Limits of Theology John Teehan 11 Some Reflections on
Cognitive Science, Doubt, and Religious Belief Joshua C. Thurow 12 Human
Nature and Religious Freedom Roger Trigg