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New Developments in the Cognitive Science of Religion
-The Rationality of Religious Belief-Hans van Eyghen; Rik Peels; Gijsbert van den Brink (Hrsg.)
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Übersicht
Verlag | : | Springer International Publishing |
Buchreihe | : | New Approaches to the Scientific Study of Religion (Bd. 4) |
Sprache | : | Englisch |
Erschienen | : | 25. 07. 2018 |
Seiten | : | 238 |
Einband | : | Gebunden |
Höhe | : | 235 mm |
Breite | : | 155 mm |
ISBN | : | 9783319902388 |
Sprache | : | Englisch |
Autorinformation
Hans van Eyghen is a doctoral student at the Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam. He holds a degree in Theology and Philosophy and published on the epistemic implications of cognitive science of religion.Prof. dr. Gijsbert van den Brink holds the University Research Chair for Theology & Science at the Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam. His current research focuses on the impact of evolutionary theory (including theories of cultural evolution) on theological doctrines as well as on theology as an academic discipline. He published in journals such as International Journal for the Philosophy of Religion, International Journal of Systematic Theology, Neue Zeitschrift für Systematische Theologie und Religionsphilophie, Philo, and Ars Disputandi. He is the author of Almighty God. A Study of the Doctrine of Divine Omnipotence (Kampen 19962), Oriëntatie in de Filosofie (Zoetermeer 2000), Philosophy ofScience for Theologians (Frankfurt 2009), Christian Dogmatics (co-authored with Cornelis van der Kooi; Grand Rapids 2017) and Reformed Theology & Evolutionary Theory (Grand Rapids 2018). Dr. Rik Peels is Assistant Professor in Philosophy at the Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam (the Netherlands). His main research interests are the ethics of belief, ignorance, scientism, the epistemic responsibilities of the university, and various issues in the philosophy of religion. He published about these topics in journals such as American Philosophical Quarterly, Australasian Journal of Philosophy, Journal of Philosophy, Philosophical Quarterly, Philosophical Studies, Philosophy and Phenomenological Research, and Synthese. He is the author of Responsible Belief: A Theory in Ethics and Epistemology (New York: Oxford University Press, 2017), editor of Perspectives on Ignorance from Moral and Social Philosophy (Oxford: Routledge, 2017), and co-editor of The Epistemic Dimensions of Ignorance (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2016) and Scientism: Prospects and Problems (New York: Oxford University Press, 2018).       
Inhaltsverzeichnis
Chapter 1. “Etiological challenges to religious practices” (Helen De Cruz).- Chapter 2. “CSR and the justification of religious belief” (Joseph Jedwab).- Chapter 3. “Gods as Intuitive Regress-Blockers: The explanatory role of religious ideas in the light of the Cognitive Science of Religion” (Paolo Mantovani).- Chapter 4. “Empirical Debunking Arguments and Second-Order Implications for Religious Belief” (Justin McBrayer).- Chapter 5. “Demystifying religious belief: naturalistic versus supernaturalistic explanations of religious belief” (Robert Nola).- Chapter 6. “Explanatory limits in the Cognitive Science of Religion: theoretical matrix and evidence levels” (Lluis Oviedo).- Chapter 7. “Naturalism(s) in the Cognitive-Evolutionary Study of Religion” (Aku Visala).