Wild Experiment: Feeling Science and Secularism After Darwin

by Donovan O. Schaefer

Book Overview

In Wild Experiment, Donovan O. Schaefer challenges the conventional wisdom that feeling and thinking are separate. Drawing on science studies, philosophy, affect theory, secularism studies, psychology, and contemporary literary criticism, Schaefer reconceptualizes rationality as defined by affective processes at every level. He introduces the model of "cogency theory" to reconsider the relationship between evolutionary biology and secularism,...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1478018259
• ISBN13: 9781478018254
• Release Date: June 2022
• Publisher: Duke University Press
• Length: 328 Pages
• Weight: 1.00 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.7" x 6.0" x 9.0"