Cognitive Foundations Of Natural History
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Cognitive Foundations Of Natural History
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Author : Scott Atran
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 1993
Cognitive Foundations Of Natural History written by Scott Atran and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1993 with Cognition categories.
Cognitive Foundations Of Natural History
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Author : Scott Atran
language : en
Publisher: Éditions de la Maison des sciences de l'homme, Paris
Release Date : 1990-01-01
Cognitive Foundations Of Natural History written by Scott Atran and has been published by Éditions de la Maison des sciences de l'homme, Paris this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1990-01-01 with categories.
Reconstruction cognitive du développement conceptuel d'une discipline scientifique dont l'anthropologie, la psychologie et les sciences historiques et philosophiques ont gardé la trace. L'auteur suit le développement de l'histoire naturelle d'Aristote...
Cognitive Foundations Of Natural History
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Author : Scott Atran
language : en
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Release Date : 1993-01-29
Cognitive Foundations Of Natural History written by Scott Atran and has been published by Cambridge University Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1993-01-29 with Science categories.
Inspired by a debate between Noam Chomsky and Jean Piaget, this work traces the development of natural history from Aristotle to Darwin, and demonstrates how the science of plants and animals has emerged from the common conceptions of folkbiology.
Minds And Gods
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Author : Todd Tremlin
language : en
Publisher: Oxford University Press
Release Date : 2006-03-02
Minds And Gods written by Todd Tremlin and has been published by Oxford University Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2006-03-02 with Religion categories.
Around the world and throughout history, in cultures as diverse as ancient Mesopotamia and modern America, human beings have been compelled by belief in gods and developed complex religions around them. But why? What makes belief in supernatural beings so widespread? And why are the gods of so many different people so similar in nature? This provocative book explains the origins and persistence of religious ideas by looking through the lens of science at the common structures and functions of human thought. The first general introduction to the "cognitive science of religion," Minds and Gods presents the major themes, theories, and thinkers involved in this revolutionary new approach to human religiosity. Arguing that we cannot understand what we think until we first understand how we think, the book sets out to study the evolutionary forces that modeled the modern human mind and continue to shape our ideas and actions today. Todd Tremlin details many of the adapted features of the brain -- illustrating their operation with examples of everyday human behavior -- and shows how mental endowments inherited from our ancestral past lead many people to naturally entertain religious ideas. In short, belief in gods and the social formation of religion have their genesis in biology, in powerful cognitive processes that all humans share. In the course of illuminating the nature of religion, this book also sheds light on human nature: why we think we do the things we do and how the reasons for these things are so often hidden from view. This discussion ranges broadly across recent scientific findings in areas such as paleoanthropology, primate studies, evolutionary psychology, early brain development, and cultural transmission. While these subjects are complex, the story is told here in a conversational style that is engaging, jargon free, and accessible to all readers. With Minds and Gods , Tremlin offers a roadmap to a fascinating and growing field of study, one that is sure to generate interest and debate and provide readers with a better understanding of themselves and their beliefs.
In Gods We Trust
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Author : Scott Atran
language : en
Publisher: Oxford University Press
Release Date : 2004-12-09
In Gods We Trust written by Scott Atran and has been published by Oxford University Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2004-12-09 with Philosophy categories.
This ambitious, interdisciplinary book seeks to explain the origins of religion using our knowledge of the evolution of cognition. A cognitive anthropologist and psychologist, Scott Atran argues that religion is a by-product of human evolution just as the cognitive intervention, cultural selection, and historical survival of religion is an accommodation of certain existential and moral elements that have evolved in the human condition.
A Natural History Of Natural Theology
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Author : Helen De Cruz
language : en
Publisher: MIT Press
Release Date : 2024-06-11
A Natural History Of Natural Theology written by Helen De Cruz and has been published by MIT Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2024-06-11 with Science categories.
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.
Romantic Science
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Author : Noah Heringman
language : en
Publisher: State University of New York Press
Release Date : 2012-02-01
Romantic Science written by Noah Heringman and has been published by State University of New York Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2012-02-01 with Science categories.
Although "romantic science" may sound like a paradox, much of the romance surrounding modern science—the mad scientist, the intuitive genius, the utopian transformation of nature—originated in the Romantic period. Romantic Science traces the literary and cultural politics surrounding the formation of the modern scientific disciplines emerging from eighteenth-century natural history. Revealing how scientific concerns were literary concerns in the Romantic period, the contributors uncover the vital role that new discoveries in earth, plant, and animal sciences played in the period's literary culture. As Thomas Pennant put it in 1772, "Natural History is, at present, the favourite science over all Europe, and the progress which has been made in it will distinguish and characterise the eighteenth century in the annals of literature." As they examine the social and literary ramifications of a particular branch or object of natural history, the contributors to this volume historicize our present intellectual landscape by reimagining and redrawing the disciplinary boundaries between literature and science. Contributors include Alan Bewell, Rachel Crawford, Noah Heringman, Theresa M. Kelley, Amy Mae King, Lydia H. Liu, Anne K. Mellor, Stuart Peterfreund, and Catherine E. Ross.
Ancient Natural History
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Author : Roger French
language : en
Publisher: Routledge
Release Date : 2005-08-08
Ancient Natural History written by Roger French and has been published by Routledge this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2005-08-08 with Education categories.
Ancient Natural History surveys the ways in which people in the ancient world thought about nature and finds that the same material was used to justify both Greek philosopher and Christian allegorist.
Nature Human Nature And Human Difference
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Author : Justin E. H. Smith
language : en
Publisher: Princeton University Press
Release Date : 2017-03-14
Nature Human Nature And Human Difference written by Justin E. H. Smith and has been published by Princeton University Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2017-03-14 with Philosophy categories.
People have always been xenophobic, but an explicit philosophical and scientific view of human racial difference only began to emerge during the modern period. Why and how did this happen? Surveying a range of philosophical and natural-scientific texts, dating from the Spanish Renaissance to the German Enlightenment, Nature, Human Nature, and Human Difference charts the evolution of the modern concept of race and shows that natural philosophy, particularly efforts to taxonomize and to order nature, played a crucial role. Smith demonstrates how the denial of moral equality between Europeans and non-Europeans resulted from converging philosophical and scientific developments, including a declining belief in human nature's universality and the rise of biological classification. The racial typing of human beings grew from the need to understand humanity within an all-encompassing system of nature, alongside plants, minerals, primates, and other animals. While racial difference as seen through science did not arise in order to justify the enslavement of people, it became a rationalization and buttress for the practices of trans-Atlantic slavery. From the work of François Bernier to G. W. Leibniz, Immanuel Kant, and others, Smith delves into philosophy's part in the legacy and damages of modern racism. With a broad narrative stretching over two centuries, Nature, Human Nature, and Human Difference takes a critical historical look at how the racial categories that we divide ourselves into came into being.
Cultures Of Natural History
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Author : Nicholas Jardine
language : en
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Release Date : 1996-01-26
Cultures Of Natural History written by Nicholas Jardine and has been published by Cambridge University Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1996-01-26 with History categories.
This copiously illustrated volume is the first systematic general work to do justice to the fruits of recent scholarship in the history of natural history. Public interest in this lively field has been stimulated by environmental concerns and through links with the histories of art, collecting and gardening. The centrality of the development of natural history for other branches of history - medical, colonial, gender, economic, ecological - is increasingly recognized. Twenty-four specially commissioned essays cover the period from the sixteenth century, when the first institutions of natural history were created, to its late nineteenth-century transformation by practitioners of the new biological sciences. An introduction discusses novel approaches that have made this a major focus for research in cultural history. The essays, which include suggestions for further reading, offer a coherent and accessible overview of a fascinating subject. An epilogue highlights the relevance of this wide-ranging survey for current debates on museum practice, the display of ecological diversity and concerns about the environment.