LEADER 03411nam 2200649 450 001 9910459755403321 005 20200520144314.0 010 $a0-262-32683-3 035 $a(SSID)ssj0001403796 035 $a(PQKBManifestationID)12626468 035 $a(PQKBTitleCode)TC0001403796 035 $a(PQKBWorkID)11367475 035 $a(PQKB)10512085 035 $a(MiAaPQ)EBC3339922 035 $a(OCoLC)900179206 035 $a(MdBmJHUP)muse43642 035 $a(OCoLC)900179206$z(OCoLC)899211924$z(OCoLC)958862401$z(OCoLC)990508277$z(OCoLC)991956840$z(OCoLC)994401681$z(OCoLC)1000443169 035 $a(OCoLC-P)900179206 035 $a(MaCbMITP)10219 035 $a(Au-PeEL)EBL3339922 035 $a(CaPaEBR)ebr11003089 035 $a(CaONFJC)MIL688315 035 $a(EXLCZ)993710000000324365 100 $a20150124h20152015 uy 0 101 0 $aeng 135 $aurcnu|||||||| 181 $ctxt 182 $cc 183 $acr 200 12$aA natural history of natural theology $ethe cognitive science of theology and philosophy of religion /$fHelen De Cruz and Johan De Smedt 210 1$aCambridge, Massachusetts ;$aLondon, England :$cThe MIT Press,$d2015. 210 4$dİ2015 215 $a1 online resource (265 pages) 300 $aBibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph 311 $a1-322-57033-7 311 $a0-262-02854-9 320 $aIncludes bibliographical references and index. 330 $a"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"--MIT CogNet. 606 $aNatural theology 606 $aGod$xProof 606 $aCognition 606 $aReligion$xPhilosophy 608 $aElectronic books. 615 0$aNatural theology. 615 0$aGod$xProof. 615 0$aCognition. 615 0$aReligion$xPhilosophy. 676 $a210 700 $aDe Cruz$b Helen$f1978-$01043286 702 $aSmedt$b Johan de 801 0$bMiAaPQ 801 1$bMiAaPQ 801 2$bMiAaPQ 906 $aBOOK 912 $a9910459755403321 996 $aA natural history of natural theology$92468151 997 $aUNINA