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Smith, Barbara H.

 
9780300140347: Natural Reflections: Human Cognition at the Nexus of Science and Religion
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ISBN 10 : 0300140347 ISBN 13 : 9780300140347
Editeur : Yale University Press, 2010

Synopsis

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 of these initiatives, which Smith calls 'the New Naturalism', is the effort, primarily by anthropologists and psychologists, to explain religion on the basis of cognitive science and evolutionary biology. Another, which she refers to as 'the New Natural Theology', is the recent attempt by a number of scientifically knowledgeable theologians to reconcile the accounts of the world given in the natural sciences and traditional religious belief. These two projects, one a naturalizing of religion, the other a theologizing of natural science, can be seen as mirror images, or 'natural reflections', of each other. Smith offers a sophisticated approach, recognizing science and religion as complex and distinct domains of human practice that also possess significant historical connections and psychological-cognitive resemblances and continuities.

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À propos de l'auteur

Barbara Herrnstein Smith is Braxton Craven Professor of Comparative Literature and Director of the Center for Interdisciplinary Studies in Science and Cultural Theory at Duke University and Distinguished Professor of English at Brown University. She is the author of 'Belief and Resistance: Dynamics of Contemporary Intellectual Controversy' and 'Scandalous Knowledge: Science, Truth and the Human'.

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Éditeur
Yale University Press
Date d'édition
2010
Langue
anglais
ISBN 10 
0300140347
ISBN 13 
9780300140347
Reliure
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Nombre de pages
192
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