The Dualistic, Discarnate Picture That Haunts the Cognitive Science of Religion

A dualistic, discarnate picture haunts contemporary cognitive science of religion (CSR). Cognitive scientists of religion generally assert or assume a reductive physicalism, primarily through unconscious mental mechanisms that detect supernatural agency where none exists and a larger purpose to life...

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Main Author: Nikkel, David Henry 1952- (Author)
Format: Electronic Article
Language:English
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Published: Wiley-Blackwell [2015]
In: Zygon
Year: 2015, Volume: 50, Issue: 3, Pages: 621-646
Further subjects:B Cognitive Science
B Paul Bloom
B Edward Slingerland
B Justin Barrett
B Agency
B reductive physicalism
B Jesse Bering
B Kognitive Religionswissenschaft
B Embodiment
B Teleology
B Dualism
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