God naturalized : epistemological reflections on theistic belief in light of the new science of religion / / Halvor Kvandal

• Autore: Kvandal Halvor
• Pubblicazione: Cham, Switzerland : , : Springer, , [2022]; ©2022
• Descrizione fisica: 1 online resource (208 pages)
• Disciplina: 121.6
• Soggetto topico: Belief and doubt
• Nota di contenuto: Intro -- Contents -- Chapter 1: When Cognitive Science Enters the Science and Religion Debate -- 1.1 Rainbows and Gods: Poetic Mystery and the Worry Science Creates -- 1.2 Bringing Cognitive Science to Bear on Theist Religion: Three Normative Implications to Consider -- 1.3 Building Models for Science and Religion: Why Compatibility Does Not Establish Harmony -- 1.4 Cognitive Science in Natural Theology: Naturalization Enters the Picture -- 1.5 Debunking, Two Neutrality-Views, and a Positive Relevance Thesis -- References -- Chapter 2: The Ultimate Origin of Religion -- 2.1 Biological Adaptationism, Hybrid Theories, and the By-Product Theory -- 2.2 From Stewart Guthrie's Anthropomorphism Thesis to Justin Barrett's "HADD" -- 2.3 The Memorability and Relevance of Religious Concepts: MCI Theory and Its Critics -- 2.4 A Motley Crowd: Mickey Mouse, Zeus, and the Abrahamic God in the Context of Cultural Evolution -- References -- Chapter 3: The Proximate Origin of Religion -- 3.1 Nico Tinbergen and Proximate Explanations of Religious Beliefs and Behaviours -- 3.2 Personal Explanation and the Problem of Confabulation -- 3.3 The Ontogeny of a Disposition to Form Theistic Beliefs -- 3.4 The Formation of Intuitive, Explanatory, and Folk-Theological Beliefs -- References -- Chapter 4: Theistic Evidentialism and the Cognitive Science of Morality -- 4.1 Theistic Evidentialism and the Internalist Argument for Epistemic Neutrality -- 4.2 Denying Internalism: Not All Epistemically Relevant Factors Are Mental -- 4.3 John Teehan's "Cognitive Problem of Evil" and an Inductive Argument from Evil -- 4.4 An Evolutionary and Cognitive Perspective on Moral Arguments for the Existence of God -- References -- Chapter 5: Do We Have a God-Faculty? A New Appraisal of Reformed Epistemology -- 5.1 A Dilemma for Proponents of the Positive Relevance View. ; 5.2 A Proper Functionalist Epistemology of Religion Meets Cognitive Science -- 5.3 The God-Faculty Dilemma Horn 1: An Empirically Unsupported Faculty -- 5.4 The God-Faculty Dilemma Horn 2: An Epistemically Deficient Faculty -- References -- Chapter 6: A Virtue Epistemology for the Theistic Disposition -- 6.1 Truth-Tracking and False Gods: Two Debunking Arguments Considered -- 6.2 Character-Based and Faculty-Based Virtue Epistemology -- 6.3 Identifying the Ability to Know: Explaining and Evaluating Doxastic Performance -- 6.4 Competence, Aptness and Total Recall: A Virtue-Theoretical Argument Considered -- References -- Chapter 7: Troubled Navigation: Evaluating the Theistic Disposition -- 7.1 Psychological Realism as Solution to the Generality Problem -- 7.2 The Theistic Disposition as Token of a Broader Type of Disposition -- 7.3 The Argument Against Epistemic Virtue and the Argument Against Epistemic Justification -- References -- Chapter 8: Cognitive Science and Theist Religion: An Unhappy Marriage? -- 8.1 Rejecting Neutrality and Positive Relevance and Moving Towards a Moderate Conflict View -- 8.2 Explaining Religion and Advocating Atheism: Richard Dawkins Reconsidered -- References -- Index.
• Titolo autorizzato: God Naturalized
• ISBN: 3-030-83178-7
• Formato: Materiale a stampa
• Livello bibliografico: Monografia
• Lingua di pubblicazione: Inglese
• Record Nr.: 9910523806203321
• Lo trovi qui: Univ. Federico II
• Serie: New approaches to the scientific study of religion ; ; 11.