Like others in this discussion, I'm not sure that recent neurological studies will dramatically change contemporary religious belief or practice,…
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psychology
Which cognitive revolution?
July 18, 2008
David Brooks, in his New York Times op-ed column "The Neural Buddhists," offers speculations about how the "cognitive revolution" will…
Medical materialism revisited
June 30, 2008
A century ago, in "Religion and Neurology," the opening chapter of The Varieties of Religious Experience, William James argued against…
The cognitive revolution and the decline of monotheism
May 30, 2008
To appreciate the cultural impact of the “cognitive revolution” discussed by David Brooks in his New York Times op-ed column…
The persistence of memory
February 1, 2008
Francis Ford Coppola’s rendition of Mircea Eliade’s novel Youth Without Youth opens with a montage of clocks woozily bending. These…