Natural reflections (Record no. 85831)
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| 082 04 - DEWEY DECIMAL CLASSIFICATION NUMBER | |
| Classification number | 201/.65 |
| 100 1# - MAIN ENTRY--AUTHOR NAME | |
| Personal name | Smith, Barbara Herrnstein. |
| 245 10 - TITLE STATEMENT | |
| Title | Natural reflections |
| 260 ## - PUBLICATION, DISTRIBUTION, ETC. (IMPRINT) | |
| Place of publication | New Haven [Conn.] : |
| Name of publisher | Yale University Press, |
| Year of publication | c2009. |
| 300 ## - PHYSICAL DESCRIPTION | |
| Number of Pages | xviii, 201 p. |
| 490 1# - SERIES STATEMENT | |
| Series statement | The Terry lectures |
| 500 ## - GENERAL NOTE | |
| General note | Book is adapted from the Dwight H. Terry Lectures delivered at Yale University in 2006. |
| 505 0# - FORMATTED CONTENTS NOTE | |
| Formatted contents note | 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. |
| 520 ## - SUMMARY, ETC. | |
| Summary, etc | 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 on the basis of cognitive science. Another, which she calls "the New Natural Theology", is the attempt to reconcile natural-scientific accounts of the world with traditional religious belief. These two projects, she suggests, are in many ways mirror images -- or "natural reflections" - of each other. Examing these and related efforts from the perspective of a constructivist-pragmatist epistemology, Smith argues that crucial aspects of belief - religious and other - that remain elusive or invisible under dominant rationalist and computational models are illuminated by views of human cognition that stress its dynamic, embodied, and interactive features. She also demonstrates how constructivist understandings of the formation and stabilization of knowledge - scientific and other - alert us to simularities in the springs of science and religion that are elsewhere seen largely in terms of difference and contrast. In Natural Reflections, Smith develops a sophisticated approach to issues often framed only polemically. Recognizing science and religion as complex, distinct domains of human practice, she also insists on their significant historical connections and cognitive continuities and offers important new modes of engagement with each of them--Jacket. |
| 650 #0 - SUBJECT ADDED ENTRY--TOPICAL TERM | |
| Topical Term | Religion and science. |
| Topical Term | Cognition. |
| 856 40 - ELECTRONIC LOCATION AND ACCESS | |
| Uniform Resource Identifier | http://site.ebrary.com/lib/rucke/Doc?id=10579364 |
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