Evolution, religion, and cognitive science

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Fraser N. Watts, Léon Turner
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Evolution, religion, and cognitive science: critical and constructive essays
2014, Oxford University Press
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Table of 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.

Edition Notes

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).

Includes bibliographical references and indexes.

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Oxford, United Kingdom, New York
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Evolution, religion, & cognitive science
Copyright Date
2014

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200.1/9
Library of Congress
BL53 .E86 2014, BL53.E86 2014, BL53 .E96 2014

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viii, 252 pages
Number of pages
252

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OL31015506M
ISBN 10
0199688087, 0191512443
ISBN 13
9780199688081, 9780191512445
LCCN
2013955759
OCLC/WorldCat
850177965

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