Wild experiment: feeling science and secularism after Darwin

The longing to believe : philosophers on conspiracy theory and the sense of science -- Sensualized epistemology : affect theory on how reason gets racialized -- Science as an intoxication : secularism studies on enchantment and critique -- Feeling is believing : perspectives on cogency theory from n...

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Main Author: Schaefer, Donovan O. 1981- (Author)
Format: Print Book
Language:English
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Published: Durham London Duke University Press 2022
In:Year: 2022
Standardized Subjects / Keyword chains:B Religion / Science / Emotion
RelBib Classification:AB Philosophy of religion; criticism of religion; atheism
Further subjects:B Religion and science
B Atheism
B Science Social aspects
B RELIGION / Religion & Science
B PHILOSOPHY / Religious
B Knowledge, Theory of
B Emotions (Philosophy)
B Secularism
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Summary:The longing to believe : philosophers on conspiracy theory and the sense of science -- Sensualized epistemology : affect theory on how reason gets racialized -- Science as an intoxication : secularism studies on enchantment and critique -- Feeling is believing : perspectives on cogency theory from neuroscience and experimental psychology -- Only better beasts : Darwin, Huxley, and the sense of science -- The secular circus : science and racialized reason in the Scopes Trial -- New atheism as secular conspiracy theory.
"Wild Experiment argues that feeling and thinking are not separate. Drawing on a range of fields including science studies, philosophy, affect theory, secularism studies, psychology, and the post-critical turn in literary studies, it reconceptualizes thinking as not just connected to feeling, but defined by it. This has implications for how we understand domains often imagined to be beyond emotion, including science, secularism, and atheism. The first part of the book builds an interdisciplinary background for what Donovan O. Schaefer calls "cogency theory"-studies of how thinking is determined by feeling. The second part turns to the history of the reception of evolutionary biology to explore three case studies of scientific secularism. Reconsidering the early Darwinian controversies, the Scopes Trial, and the New Atheist movement of the 2000s, part two argues that we can't understand scientific secularism without mapping how it feels. The epilogue considers how relationships between emotion, science, and secularism shape contemporary climate denialism"--
Item Description:Includes bibliographical references and index
ISBN:1478018259