Title: The Believing Primate: Scientific, Philosophical, and Theological Reflections on the Origin of Religion
Abstract: Introduction 1. Hand of God, Mind of Man: Punishment and Cognition in the Evolution of Cooperation 2. Religiosity as mental time travel: cognitive adaptations for religious behavior 3. Cognitive Science, Religion & Theology 4. Is Religion Adaptive? Yes, no, neutral, but mostly we don't know 5. Religious Belief as an Evolutionary Accident 6. Explaining Belief in the Supernatural: Some thoughts on Paul Bloom's 'Religious Belief as Evolutionary Accident' 7. Games Scientists Play 8. Scientific Explanations of Religion and the Justification of Religious Belief 9. Evolutionary Accounts of Religion: Explaining and Explaining Away 10. Explaining Religious Experience 11. Humanness in their hearts: Where science and religion fuse 12. Theology and Evolution: How Much Can Biology Explain 13. Cognitive Science and the Evolutionof Religion: A Philosophical and Theological Appraisal 14. Does Naturalism Warrant a Moral Belief in Universal Benevolence and Human Rights? 15. Moral Psychology and the Misunderstanding of Religion 16. Evolutionary Social Constructivism: Narrowing (but not yet bridging) the Gap
Publication Year: 2009
Publication Date: 2009-01-01
Language: en
Type: book
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