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040			_aSDU
050	0	0	_aBL241 _bS643 N 2009
100	1		_aSmith, Barbara Herrnstein. _9221329
245	1	0	_aNatural reflections : _bhuman cognition at the nexus of science and religion / _cBarbara Herrnstein Smith.
260			_aNew Haven [Conn.] : _bYale University Press, _c2009.
300			_a201 p.
490	1		_aTerry lectures series
500			_aBook is adapted from the Dwight H. Terry Lectures delivered at Yale University in 2006.
505	0		_aHKBU Library
520			_aIn 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	_aReligion and science.
650		0	_aCognition.
900			_a = C.1 SDU
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