How We Believe: Science, Skepticism, and the Search for GodHenry Holt and Company, 1 באוק׳ 2003 - 368 עמודים A new edition covering the latest scientific research on how the brain makes us believers or skeptics |
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... evolved as the most powerful institution in human history, and how and why belief (or lack of) in God develops and shapes our thoughts and actions. One prominent scientist told me “you have a rather conciliatory attitude toward religion ...
... evolve to cope with the problems in that radically different world? Evolutionary psychologists—scientists who study the brain and behavior from an evolutionary perspective—make a reasonable argument that the modern brain (and along with.
... evolved to solve the adaptive problems regularly encountered by our hunter-gatherer ancestors. Because humans share a universal evolved architecture, all ordinary individuals reliably develop a distinctively human set of preferences ...
... evolved in the EEA to solve specific problems. Within the circle of professional scientists who study the brain—neurophysiologists, cognitive psychologists, psychopharmacologists, and brain–mind philosophers—this is a very controversial ...
... evolved a more general Belief Engine, and that it is Janusfaced—that is, under certain conditions it leads to magical thinking while under different circumstances it leads to scientific thinking. We might think of the Belief Engine as a ...
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BELIEVE | |
RELIGION AND SCIENCE | |
AFTERWORD TO THE SECOND EDITION God on | |
What Does It Mean to Study Religion | |
A Bibliographic Essay on Theism Atheism and | |
NOTES | |
CREDITS | |
ABOUT THE AUTHOR | |
מהדורות אחרות - הצג הכל
How We Believe, 2nd Edition: Science, Skepticism, and the Search for God <span dir=ltr>Michael Shermer</span> אין תצוגה מקדימה זמינה - 2003 |