Natural reflections : human cognition at the nexus of science and religion / / Barbara Herrnstein Smith.
In this important and original book, eminent scholar Barbara Herenstein Smith describes, assesses, and reflects upon a set of contemporary intellectual projects involving science, religion, and human cognition. One, which Smith calls "the New Naturalism", is the effort to explain religion...
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| Superior document: | The Terry lectures |
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| Year of Publication: | 2009 |
| Language: | English |
| Series: | Terry lectures.
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| Physical Description: | xviii, 201 p. |
| Notes: | Book is adapted from the Dwight H. Terry Lectures delivered at Yale University in 2006. |
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Table of Contents:
- Introduction: Prophecies, predictions, and human cognition
- Cognitive machinery and explanatory ambitions : the new naturalism
- "The gods seem here to stay" : naturalism, rationalism, and the persistence of belief
- Deep reading : the new natural theology
- Reflections : science and religion, natural and unnatural.