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Auteur(s) : Smith Herrnstein, Barbara. Auteur du texte
Titre(s) : Natural reflections [Texte imprimé] : human cognition at the nexus of science and religion / Barbara Herrnstein Smith
Publication : New Haven (Conn.) : Yale University press, cop. 2009
Description matérielle : 1 vol. (XVIII-201 p.) ; 22 cm
Collection : Terry lectures series
Lien à la collection : The Terry lectures
Comprend : 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.
Note(s) : Le livre est adapté de Dwight H. Terry Lectures, qui ont eu lieu à Yale University en 2006. - Bibliogr. p. 179-193In 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 on the basis of cognitive science. Another, which she calls "the New Natural Theology", is the attempt to reconcile natural-scientific accounts of the world with traditional religious belief. These two projects, she suggests, are in many ways mirror images -- or "natural reflections" - of each other. Examing these and related efforts from the perspective of a constructivist-pragmatist epistemology, Smith argues that crucial aspects of belief - religious and other - that remain elusive or invisible under dominant rationalist and computational models are illuminated by views of human cognition that stress its dynamic, embodied, and interactive features. She also demonstrates how constructivist understandings of the formation and stabilization of knowledge - scientific and other - alert us to simularities in the springs of science and religion that are elsewhere seen largely in terms of difference and contrast. In Natural Reflections, Smith develops a sophisticated approach to issues often framed only polemically. Recognizing science and religion as complex, distinct domains of human practice, she also insists on their significant historical connections and cognitive continuities and offers important new modes of engagement with each of them--Jacket
Autre(s) forme(s) du titre : - Autre forme du titre : Human cognition at the nexus of science and religion
Sujet(s) : Religion et sciences Cognition
Indice(s) Dewey : 201.65 (23e éd.) = Religions et sciences
Identifiants, prix et caractéristiques : ISBN 9780300140347. - ISBN 0300140347 (rel.)
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