Let me assure you. Ongoing neurological studies will not dramatically change religious belief or practice. As Robert Bellah notes in…
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The aesthetics of neural Buddhism
July 8, 2008
The first three postings in this series remind us how complex the individual topics of cognitive science, Buddhism, and religious…
Naturalism, otherwise
June 23, 2008
The past fifteen years or so have been a period of extraordinary activity in pursuit of what are called "cognitive"…
Cognitive machinery and explanatory ambitions
June 16, 2008
One of the most influential works among recent “cognitive” and/or “evolutionary” studies of religion is a book by French anthropologist…
Beyond The God Delusion
February 23, 2008
The university classroom has become a battleground in the science and religion wars. In a controversial 2005 state of the…
Deus absconditus and disenchantment
November 21, 2007
Charles Taylor’s A Secular Age is an inspired yet rigorously argued Wagnerian effort to analyze the distinctive anxieties of modern…