A New Look at the Science-and-Religion Dialogue

Abstract. Cognitive science is beginning to make a contribution to the science-and-religion dialogue by its claims about the nature of both scientific and religious knowledge and the practices such knowledge informs. Of particular importance is the distinction between folk knowledge and abstract the...

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Auteur principal: Lawson, E. Thomas (Auteur)
Type de support: Électronique Article
Langue:Anglais
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Publié: Wiley-Blackwell 2005
Dans: Zygon
Année: 2005, Volume: 40, Numéro: 3, Pages: 555-564
Sujets non-standardisés:B folk physics
B Folk Psychology
B Creationism
B off-line reasoning
B Evolutionary Psychology
B cognitive science of religion
B on-line reasoning
B folk science
B folk biology
B cognitive science of science
B commonsense reasoning
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Résumé:Abstract. Cognitive science is beginning to make a contribution to the science-and-religion dialogue by its claims about the nature of both scientific and religious knowledge and the practices such knowledge informs. Of particular importance is the distinction between folk knowledge and abstract theoretical knowledge leading to a distinction between folk science and folk religion on the one hand and the reflective, theoretical, abstract form of thought that characterizes both advanced scientific thought and sophisticated theological reasoning on the other. Both folk science and folk religion emerge from commonsense reasoning about the world, a form of reasoning bequeathed to us by the processes of natural selection. Suggestions are made about what scientists and theologians can do if they accept these claims.
ISSN:1467-9744
Contient:Enthalten in: Zygon
Persistent identifiers:DOI: 10.1111/j.1467-9744.2005.00687.x