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Reformed Epistemology and the Cognitive Science of Religion [PDF]
Reformed epistemology and cognitive science have remarkably converged on belief in God. Reformed epistemology holds that belief in God is basic— that is, belief in God is a natural, non-inferential belief that is immediately produced by a cognitive faculty.
Clark, Kelly James, Barrett, Justin L.
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Cognitive Science and the Naturalness of Religion [PDF]
Abstract Cognitive approaches to religious phenomena have attracted considerable interdisciplinary attention since their emergence a couple of decades ago. Proponents offer explanatory accounts of the content and transmission of religious thought and behavior in terms of underlying cognition. A central claim is that the cross‐cultural
McCauley, R., Cohen, E.
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Recent work in the cognitive science of religion has challenged some of the explanatory assumptions of previous research in the field. Nonetheless, some of the practitioners of the new cognitive science of religion theorize in the same skeptical spirit ...
Walter Scott Stepanenko
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THE COGNITIVE SCIENCE OF RELIGION: IMPLICATIONS FOR THEISM?
. Although the Cognitive Science of Religion (CSR), a current approach to the scientific study of religion, has exerted an influence in the study of religion for almost twenty years, the question of its compatibility or incompatibility with theism has ...
Aku Visala
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Philosophy and the Cognitive Science of Religion
Presentation for the dossier.
José Eduardo Porcher +1 more
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Theology and the Cognitive Science of Religion
Cognitive science of religion (CSR) is the study of how mental processes interact with and influence the formation and transmission of religious concepts.
Tyler Greenway, Justin L. Barrett
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TWO TYPES OF “EXPLAINING AWAY” ARGUMENTS IN THE COGNITIVE SCIENCE OF RELIGION
This article discusses “explaining away” arguments in the cognitive science of religion (CSR). I distinguish two rather different ways of explaining away religion, one where religion is shown to be incompatible with scientific findings (EA1) and one ...
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EXISTENTIALIST LITERATURE, COGNITIVE SCIENCE OF RELIGION, AND THE SCIENTIFICATION OF RELIGION
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The cognitive science of religion: A critical evaluation for theology
This article explores the cognitive science of religion to discover the challenges and implications for theology by providing a critical evaluation through the lenses of philosophy, evolutionary biology and neuroscience. Four positive implications of the
Sungho Lee
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Cognitive Approaches to the Study of Religion [PDF]
Cognitive science is an inter-disciplinary approach that applies a set of methods to study the cognitive structures and faculties in human being’s life.
Mohammadsadegh Zahedi +1 more
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