Natural reflections human cognition at the nexus of science and religion /

In this important and original book, eminent scholar Barbara Herenstein Smith describes, assesses, and reflects upon a set of contemporary intellectual projects involving science, religion, and human cognition. One, which Smith calls "the New Naturalism", is the effort to explain religion...

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Autor principal: Smith, Barbara Herrnstein
Autor Corporativo: ebrary, Inc
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Lenguaje:inglés
Publicado: New Haven [Conn.] : Yale University Press, c2009.
Colección:Terry lectures.
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Acceso en línea:An electronic book accessible through the World Wide Web; click to view
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Tabla de Contenidos:
  • Introduction: Prophecies, predictions, and human cognition
  • Cognitive machinery and explanatory ambitions : the new naturalism
  • "The gods seem here to stay" : naturalism, rationalism, and the persistence of belief
  • Deep reading : the new natural theology
  • Reflections : science and religion, natural and unnatural.