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Can science explain religion? : the cognitive science debate / James W. Jones.

By: Material type: TextTextPublisher: New York : Oxford University Press, [2016]Copyright date: �2016Description: 1 online resource (ix, 236 pages)Content type:
  • text
Media type:
  • computer
Carrier type:
  • online resource
ISBN:
  • 9780190249397
  • 0190249390
Subject(s): Genre/Form: Additional physical formats: Print version:: Can science explain religion?DDC classification:
  • 201/.65 23
LOC classification:
  • BL240.3 .J66 2015eb
Online resources:
Contents:
A voice from the border of religion and science -- Explanations, how science seeks to explain religion -- Explaining, what does it mean to explain religion? -- Physicalism, is a purely physicalist account compelling? -- Beyond physicalism, mind and nature -- Our pluralistic universe, living on the border of science and religion.
Summary: Drawing on scientific research and logical argument (presented in a generally accessible way), this book rejects the idea that findings from cognitive science weaken, if not completely undermine, religious beliefs and practices. It directly confronts claims about an inevitable conflict between science and religion, that religious belief and practice are basically irrational, and that science can and will replace religion. Rather, it demonstrates that there are more compelling approaches to the relationship between science and religion than conflict or debunking.
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Includes bibliographical references and index.

A voice from the border of religion and science -- Explanations, how science seeks to explain religion -- Explaining, what does it mean to explain religion? -- Physicalism, is a purely physicalist account compelling? -- Beyond physicalism, mind and nature -- Our pluralistic universe, living on the border of science and religion.

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Drawing on scientific research and logical argument (presented in a generally accessible way), this book rejects the idea that findings from cognitive science weaken, if not completely undermine, religious beliefs and practices. It directly confronts claims about an inevitable conflict between science and religion, that religious belief and practice are basically irrational, and that science can and will replace religion. Rather, it demonstrates that there are more compelling approaches to the relationship between science and religion than conflict or debunking.

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