Natural Reflections: Human Cognition at the Nexus of Science and Religion (The Terry Lectures Series)
Автор:Barbara Herrnstein Smith Год: 2010 Издание: [не указанo] Страниц: 224 ISBN: 0300140347 In this important and original book, eminent scholar Barbara Herrnstein Smith describes, assesses, and reflects upon a set of contemporary intellectual projects involving science, religion, and human cognition. One, which Smith calls a??the New Naturalism,a?? is the effort to explain religion on the basis of cognitive science. Another, which she calls a??the New Natural Theology,a?? 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 imagesa??or a??natural reflectionsa??a??of each other. Examining these and related efforts from the perspective of a constructivist-pragmatist epistemology, Smith argues that crucial aspects of beliefa??religious and othera??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...
