James W Jones

Can Science Explain Religion?

The Cognitive Science Debate

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Produktbeschreibung

Drawing on scientific research and logical argument James Jones directly confronts the claims that cognitive science can eliminate, or debunk, religion. He provides an accessibly written, persuasive account of why these claims are not convincing.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Oxford University Press, USA
• Seitenzahl: 248
• Erscheinungstermin: 28. Oktober 2015
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 211mm x 145mm x 23mm
• Gewicht: 386g
• ISBN-13: 9780190249380
• ISBN-10: 0190249382
• Artikelnr.: 42798647

Autorenporträt

James W. Jones is Distinguished Professor of Religion at Rutgers University. He is the author of fifteen books and numerous professional papers, and the editor several of several volumes of collected papers dealing with Religion, Psychology, and Science. He serves on the editorial boards of several publications. He is an ordained priest in the Episcopal Church USA and has maintained a private practice of clinical psychology, specializing in psychophysiology and behavioral medicine.

Inhaltsangabe

* Acknowledgements
* Introduction: A Voice from the Border of Religion and Science
* Chapter One: Explanations -How Science Seeks to Explain Religion
* Chapter Two: Explaining-What does it Mean to Explain Religion?
* Chapter Three: Physicalism-Is a Purely Physicalist Account
Compelling?
* Chapter Four: Beyond Physicalism-Mind and Nature
* Chapter Five: Our Pluralistic Universe - Living on the Border of
Science and Religion
* Appendix: Sources, References, and Further Discussions
* Bibliography of Sources Used In Preparing the Text