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A Natural History of Natural Theology: The Cognitive Science of Theology and Philosophy of Religion - Couverture souple

De Cruz, Helen; De Smedt, Johan

 
9780262552455: A Natural History of Natural Theology: The Cognitive Science of Theology and Philosophy of Religion
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ISBN 10 : 0262552450 ISBN 13 : 9780262552455
Editeur : MIT Press, 2024

Synopsis

An examination of the cognitive foundations of intuitions about the existence and attributes of God.

Questions about the existence and attributes of God form the subject matter of natural theology, which seeks to gain knowledge of the divine by relying on reason and experience of the world. Arguments in natural theology rely largely on intuitions and inferences that seem natural to us, occurring spontaneously—at the sight of a beautiful landscape, perhaps, or in wonderment at the complexity of the cosmos—even to a nonphilosopher. In this book, Helen De Cruz and Johan De Smedt examine the cognitive origins of arguments in natural theology. They find that although natural theological arguments can be very sophisticated, they are rooted in everyday intuitions about purpose, causation, agency, and morality. Using evidence and theories from disciplines including the cognitive science of religion, evolutionary ethics, evolutionary aesthetics, and the cognitive science of testimony, they show that these intuitions emerge early in development and are a stable part of human cognition.

De Cruz and De Smedt analyze the cognitive underpinnings of five well-known arguments for the existence of God: the argument from design, the cosmological argument, the moral argument, the argument from beauty, and the argument from miracles. Finally, they consider whether the cognitive origins of these natural theological arguments should affect their rationality.

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À propos de l'auteur

Helen De Cruz is Senior Lecturer at Oxford Brookes University, UK.

Johan De Smedt is an independent scholar.

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Éditeur
MIT Press
Date d'édition
2024
Langue
anglais
ISBN 10 
0262552450
ISBN 13 
9780262552455
Reliure
Broché
Nombre de pages
264
Coordonnées du fabricant
non disponible
Personne responsable
gpsr@libri.de
gpsr@libri.de

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