Research Catalog

Title

Evolution, religion, and cognitive science : critical and constructive essays / edited by Fraser Watts and Léon Turner.

Publication

• Oxford, United Kingdom ; New York : Oxford University Press, 2014.
• ©2014

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Additional Authors

• Watts, Fraser N.
• Turner, Léon, 1973-
• International Society for Science and Religion.
• Darwin Festival (2009 : University of Cambridge)

Description

viii, 252 pages : illustrations; 24 cm

Alternative Title

Evolution, religion, & cognitive science

Subjects

• Evolutionary psychology
• Cognitive science
• Psychology, Religious

Note

• Outgrowth in part of two conferences held in Cambridge in 2009: the Darwin Festival and a conference of the International Society for Science and Religion. (Preface)

Bibliography (note)

• Includes bibliographical references and indexes.

Contents

Introduction: Pluralism and complexity in the evolutionary cognitive science of religion / Léon Turner -- The cognitive science of religion / Ilkka Pyysiäinen -- Biologically evolutionary explanations of religious belief / Michael Ruse -- The evolution of divine and human minds : evolutionary psychology, the cognitive study of religion and theism / Aku Visala -- Extending evolutionary accounts of religion beyond the mind : religions as adaptive systems / Benjamin Grant Purzycki, Omar Sultan Haque, and Richard Sosis -- Skilful engagement and the 'effort after value' : an axiological theory of the orgins of religion / Nathaniel F. Barrett -- Religion and the emergence of differentiated cognition / Fraser Watts -- From empathy to embodied faith? : interdisciplinary perspectives on the evolution of religion / J. Wentzel van Huyssteen -- Neither friends nor enemies : the complex relationship between cognitive and humanistic accounts of religious belief / Léon Turner -- The cognitive science of religion from an anthropological perspective / Timothy Jenkins -- Religion : the dynamics of cultural adaptations / Lesley Newson and Peter Richerson -- Artificial intelligence models of religious evolution / William Sims Bainbridge -- Concluding reflections / Malcolm Jeeves.

Call Number

JFE 14-4997

ISBN

• 9780199688081
• 0199688087

LCCN

2013955759

OCLC

850177965

Title

Evolution, religion, and cognitive science : critical and constructive essays / edited by Fraser Watts and Léon Turner.

Publisher

Oxford, United Kingdom ; New York : Oxford University Press, 2014.

Copyright Date

©2014

Edition

First edition.

Type of Content

text

Type of Medium

unmediated

Type of Carrier

volume

Bibliography

Includes bibliographical references and indexes.

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Added Author

Watts, Fraser N., editor.

Turner, Léon, 1973- editor.

International Society for Science and Religion.

Darwin Festival (2009 : University of Cambridge)

Spine Title

Evolution, religion, & cognitive science

Research Call Number

JFE 14-4997