Wild Experiment: Feeling Science and Secularism after Darwin
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...
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| Format: | Electronic Book |
| Language: | English |
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Durham
Duke University Press
[2022]
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| In: | Year: 2022 |
| Standardized Subjects / Keyword chains: | B
Religion
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/ Emotion
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Religion and science
B Society for the Social Studies of Science book awards B Atheism B Science Social aspects B RELIGION / Religion & Science B Knowledge, Theory of B Emotions (Philosophy) B 2023 Ludwik Fleck Prize Winner B 2023 International Society for Science and Religion Book Prize Winner B Secularism B 4S book awards |
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| Summary: | 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, examining mid-nineteenth-century Darwinian controversies, the 1925 Scopes Trial, and the New Atheist movement of the 2000s. Along the way, Schaefer reappraises a range of related issues, from secular architecture at Oxford to American eugenics to contemporary climate denialism. These case studies locate the intersection of thinking and feeling in the way scientific rationality balances excited discovery with anxious scrutiny, in the fascination of conspiracy theories, and in how racist feelings assume the mantle of rational objectivity. The fact that cognition is felt, Schaefer demonstrates, is both why science succeeds and why it fails. He concludes that science, secularism, atheism, and reason itself are not separate from feeling but comprehensively defined by it |
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| ISBN: | 1478022876 |
| Access: | Restricted Access |
| Persistent identifiers: | DOI: 10.1515/9781478022879 |