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Evolution, religion, and cognitive science critical and constructive essays

Title
Evolution, religion, and cognitive science [electronic resource] : critical and constructive essays / edited by Fraser Watts and Léon Turner.
Publication
Oxford, United Kingdom ; New York : Oxford University Press, 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
1 online resource (viii, 252 pages) : illustrations.
Uniform Title
Evolution, religion, and cognitive science (Online)
Alternative Title
Evolution, religion, & cognitive science
Subject
  • Psychology, Religious
  • Evolutionary psychology
  • Cognitive science
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.
Access (note)
  • Access restricted to authorized users.
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.
LCCN
2013955759
OCLC
ssj0001211894
Title
Evolution, religion, and cognitive science [electronic resource] : critical and constructive essays / edited by Fraser Watts and Léon Turner.
Imprint
Oxford, United Kingdom ; New York : Oxford University Press, 2014.
Edition
First edition.
Bibliography
Includes bibliographical references and indexes.
Access
Access restricted to authorized users.
Connect to:
Available from home with a valid library card
Available onsite at NYPL
Added Author
Watts, Fraser N.
Turner, Léon, 1973-
International Society for Science and Religion.
Darwin Festival (2009 : University of Cambridge)
Spine Title
Evolution, religion, & cognitive science
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