Thursday, May 3, 2007

My dissertation

For those interested, here is a link to a great article on the cognitive science of religion, which is the main topic of my dissertation. I mainly offer a critique of some of the reductionism in the cognitive science of religion while still affirming the need to use aspects of cognitive science to help us better understand religion. I argue that the concepts of emergence and top-down casuation provide a helpful corrective to the the reductionism of the CSR