Natural Reflections: Human Cognition at the Nexus of Science and Religion

by Barbara Herrnstein Smith

Book Overview

In this important and original book, eminent scholar Barbara Herrnstein 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...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0300140347
• ISBN13: 9780300140347
• Release Date: January 2010
• Publisher: Yale University Press
• Length: 224 Pages
• Weight: 0.85 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.8" x 5.6" x 8.3"