The Believing Primate 1st Edition by Michael Murray, Jeffrey Schloss ISBN 0199597081 978-0199597086

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ISBN 10: 0199597081
ISBN 13: 978-0199597086
Author: Michael Murray, Jeffrey Schloss

Over the last two decades, scientific accounts of religion have received a great deal of scholarly and popular attention both because of their intrinsic interest and because they are widely as constituting a threat to the religion they analyse. The Believing Primate aims to describe and discuss these scientific accounts as well as to assess their implications. The volume begins with essays by leading scientists in the field, describing these accounts and discussing evidence in their favour. Philosophical and theological reflections on these accounts follow, offered by leading philosophers, theologians, and scientists. This diverse group of scholars address some fascinating underlying questions: Do scientific accounts of religion undermine the justification of religious belief? Do such accounts show religion to be an accidental by-product of our evolutionary development? And, whilst we seem naturally disposed toward religion, would we fare better or worse without it? Bringing together dissenting perspectives, this provocative collection will serve to freshly illuminate ongoing debate on these perennial questions.

The Believing Primate 1st Table of contents:

1. Hand of God, Mind of Man

2. Religiosity as Mental Time-travel

3. Cognitive Science, Religion, and Theology

4. Is Religion Adaptive?

5. Religious Belief as an Evolutionary Accident

6. Explaining Belief in the Supernatural

7. Games Scientists Play

8. Scientific Explanations of Religion and the Justification of Religious Belief

9. Evolutionary Accounts of Religion: Explaining and Explaining Away

10. Explaining Religious Experience

11. Humanness in their Hearts: Where Science and Religion Fuse

12. Theology and Evolution: How Much Can Biology Explain?

13. Cognitive Science and the Evolution of Religion

14. Moral Psychology and the Misunderstanding of Religion

15. Does Naturalism Warrant a Moral Belief in Universal Benevolence and Human Rights?

16. Evolutionary Social Constructivism

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