LEADER 03701nam 2200613 a 450 001 9910807248903321 005 20240418005550.0 010 $a0-300-16623-0 024 7 $a10.12987/9780300166231 035 $a(CKB)2550000000105013 035 $a(StDuBDS)AH24682118 035 $a(SSID)ssj0000704016 035 $a(PQKBManifestationID)11426640 035 $a(PQKBTitleCode)TC0000704016 035 $a(PQKBWorkID)10692043 035 $a(PQKB)10115187 035 $a(DE-B1597)486073 035 $a(OCoLC)952756469 035 $a(DE-B1597)9780300166231 035 $a(Au-PeEL)EBL3420965 035 $a(CaPaEBR)ebr10579364 035 $a(OCoLC)923600478 035 $a(MiAaPQ)EBC3420965 035 $a(EXLCZ)992550000000105013 100 $a20090608d2009 uy 0 101 0 $aeng 135 $aur||||||||||| 181 $ctxt 182 $cc 183 $acr 200 10$aNatural reflections $ehuman cognition at the nexus of science and religion /$fBarbara Herrnstein Smith 205 $a1st ed. 210 $aNew Haven [Conn.] $cYale University Press$dc2009 215 $a1 online resource (224 p.) 225 1 $aThe Terry lectures 300 $aBook is adapted from the Dwight H. Terry Lectures delivered at Yale University in 2006. 311 $a0-300-14034-7 320 $aIncludes bibliographical references (p. 179-191) and index. 327 $aIntroduction: 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. 330 $aIn this important and original book, eminent scholar Barbara Herenstein Smith describes, assesses, and reflects upon a set of contemporary intellectual projects involving science, religion, and human cognition. One, which Smith calls "the New Naturalism", is the effort to explain religion on the basis of cognitive science. Another, which she calls "the New Natural Theology", is the attempt to reconcile natural-scientific accounts of the world with traditional religious belief. These two projects, she suggests, are in many ways mirror images -- or "natural reflections" - of each other. Examing these and related efforts from the perspective of a constructivist-pragmatist epistemology, Smith argues that crucial aspects of belief - religious and other - that remain elusive or invisible under dominant rationalist and computational models are illuminated by views of human cognition that stress its dynamic, embodied, and interactive features. She also demonstrates how constructivist understandings of the formation and stabilization of knowledge - scientific and other - alert us to simularities in the springs of science and religion that are elsewhere seen largely in terms of difference and contrast. In Natural Reflections, Smith develops a sophisticated approach to issues often framed only polemically. Recognizing science and religion as complex, distinct domains of human practice, she also insists on their significant historical connections and cognitive continuities and offers important new modes of engagement with each of them--Jacket. 410 0$aTerry lectures. 606 $aReligion and science 606 $aCognition 615 0$aReligion and science. 615 0$aCognition. 676 $a201/.65 700 $aSmith$b Barbara Herrnstein$0608364 801 0$bMiAaPQ 801 1$bMiAaPQ 801 2$bMiAaPQ 906 $aBOOK 912 $a9910807248903321 996 $aNatural reflections$94010677 997 $aUNINA