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Natural reflections : | human cognition at the nexus of science and religion / (Record no. 113177)

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008 - FIXED-LENGTH DATA ELEMENTS--GENERAL INFORMATION
fixed length control field	090608s2009 ctu b 001 0 eng
020 ## - INTERNATIONAL STANDARD BOOK NUMBER
International Standard Book Number	9780300140347
020 ## - INTERNATIONAL STANDARD BOOK NUMBER
International Standard Book Number	0300140347
040 ## - CATALOGING SOURCE
Original cataloging agency	SDU
050 00 - LIBRARY OF CONGRESS CALL NUMBER
Classification number	BL241
Item number	S643 N 2009
100 1# - MAIN ENTRY--PERSONAL NAME
Personal name	Smith, Barbara Herrnstein.
245 10 - TITLE STATEMENT
Title	Natural reflections :
Remainder of title	human cognition at the nexus of science and religion /
Statement of responsibility, etc.	Barbara Herrnstein Smith.
260 ## - PUBLICATION, DISTRIBUTION, ETC.
Place of publication, distribution, etc.	New Haven [Conn.] :
Name of publisher, distributor, etc.	Yale University Press,
Date of publication, distribution, etc.	2009.
300 ## - PHYSICAL DESCRIPTION
Extent	201 p.
490 1# - SERIES STATEMENT
Series Statement	Terry lectures series
500 ## - GENERAL NOTE
General note	Book is adapted from the Dwight H. Terry Lectures delivered at Yale University in 2006.
505 0# - Formatted Contents Note
Formatted contents note	HKBU Library
520 ## - SUMMARY
Summary	In this important and original book, eminent scholar Barbara Herenstein Smith describes, assesses, and reflects upon a set of contemporary intellectual projects involving science, religion, and human cognition. One, which Smith calls "the New Naturalism", is the effort to explain religion on the basis of cognitive science. Another, which she calls "the New Natural Theology", is the attempt to reconcile natural-scientific accounts of the world with traditional religious belief. These two projects, she suggests, are in many ways mirror images -- or "natural reflections" - of each other. Examing these and related efforts from the perspective of a constructivist-pragmatist epistemology, Smith argues that crucial aspects of belief - religious and other - that remain elusive or invisible under dominant rationalist and computational models are illuminated by views of human cognition that stress its dynamic, embodied, and interactive features. She also demonstrates how constructivist understandings of the formation and stabilization of knowledge - scientific and other - alert us to simularities in the springs of science and religion that are elsewhere seen largely in terms of difference and contrast. In Natural Reflections, Smith develops a sophisticated approach to issues often framed only polemically. Recognizing science and religion as complex, distinct domains of human practice, she also insists on their significant historical connections and cognitive continuities and offers important new modes of engagement with each of them--Jacket.
650 #0 - SUBJECT
Topical term	Religion and science.
650 #0 - SUBJECT
Topical term	Cognition.
900 ## - Accession Number
Accession Number	= C.1 SDU
942 ## - ADDED ENTRY ELEMENTS (KOHA)
Koha item type	English Books
Source of classification or shelving scheme	Library of Congress Classification
100 1# - MAIN ENTRY--PERSONAL NAME
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		Library of Congress Classification		Available for Loans	General Books	MATRIX Library	MATRIX Library	General Eng/FL.3	06/10/2025	Donation		BL241 S643 N 2009	1000386793	06/10/2025	C.1	06/10/2025	English Books

Natural reflections : | human cognition at the nexus of science and religion / (Record no. 113177)

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