The New York Times opinion piece by David Brooks, titled "The Neural Buddhists," drives a wedge between mystical and "revealed"…
Is this anything or is this nothing?
religion
Medical materialism revisited
A century ago, in "Religion and Neurology," the opening chapter of The Varieties of Religious Experience, William James argued against…
A religious history of American neuroscience
Not long ago, researchers wired up the atheist Richard Dawkins with a helmet that would create magnetic fields partially simulating…
Naturalism, otherwise
The past fifteen years or so have been a period of extraordinary activity in pursuit of what are called "cognitive"…
Secular brooding, literary brooding
What's so bad about heteronomous thinking, anyway? Stathis Gourgouris has used the term in several posts here on The Immanent…
Cognitive machinery and explanatory ambitions
One of the most influential works among recent “cognitive” and/or “evolutionary” studies of religion is a book by French anthropologist…
Problems around the secular
One great problem is that the term “secular” is a western term, and corresponds to a very old distinction within…