Wittgenstein and the Cognitive Science of Religion
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Wittgenstein and the Cognitive Science of Religion

Interpreting Human Nature and the Mind

  1. 256 pages
  2. English
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eBook - ePub

Wittgenstein and the Cognitive Science of Religion

Interpreting Human Nature and the Mind

About this book

Advancing our understanding of one of the most influential 20th-century philosophers, Robert Vinten brings together an international line up of scholars to consider the relevance of Ludwig Wittgenstein's ideas to the cognitive science of religion. Wittgenstein's claims ranged from the rejection of the idea that psychology is a 'young science' in comparison to physics to challenges to scientistic and intellectualist accounts of religion in the work of past anthropologists. Chapters explore whether these remarks about psychology and religion undermine the frameworks and practices of cognitive scientists of religion. Employing philosophical tools as well as drawing on case studies, contributions not only illuminate psychological experiments, anthropological observations and neurophysiological research relevant to understanding religious phenomena, they allow cognitive scientists to either heed or clarify their position in relation to Wittgenstein's objections. By developing and responding to his criticisms, Wittgenstein and the Cognitive Science of Religion offers novel perspectives on his philosophy in relation to religion, human nature, and the mind.

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Information

Publisher
Bloomsbury Academic
Year
2023
Print ISBN
9781350329355
eBook ISBN
9781350329379
Edition
1
Topic
Philosophy
Subtopic
Mind & Body in Philosophy

Table of contents

  1. Cover
  2. Half-Title
  3. Series
  4. Dedication
  5. Title
  6. Contents
  7. List of figures
  8. List of contributors
  9. Acknowledgements
  10. Introduction
  11. 1 Wittgenstein, concepts and human nature
  12. 2 On truth, language and objectivity
  13. 3 Pascal Boyer’s miscellany of homunculi: A Wittgensteinian critique of Religion Explained
  14. 4 The brain perceives/infers
  15. 5 The imaginary inner inside the cognitive science of religion
  16. 6 Cognitive theories and Wittgenstein: Looking for convergence, not for divergence
  17. 7 Wittgenstein, naturalism and interpreting religious phenomena
  18. 8 Natural thoughts and unnatural ‘oughts’: Lessing, Wittgenstein and contemporary CSR
  19. 9 Normative cognition in the cognitive science of religion
  20. 10 Brains as the source of being: Mind/brain focus and the Western model of mind in dominant cognitive science discourse
  21. 11 On religious practices as multi-scale active inference: Certainties emerging from recurrent interactions within and across individuals and groups
  22. References
  23. Index
  24. Copyright