A Natural History of Natural Theology : The Cognitive Science of Theology and Philosophy of Religion.
- 1st ed.
- 1 online resource (265 pages)
Intro -- Contents -- Acknowledgments -- Introduction -- 1 Natural Theology and Natural History -- 2 The Naturalness of Religious Beliefs -- 3 Intuitions about God's Knowledge: Anthropomorphism or Preparedness? -- 4 Teleology, the Design Stance, and the Argument from Design -- 5 The Cosmological Argument and Intuitions about Causality and Agency -- 6 The Moral Argument in the Light of Evolutionary Ethics -- 7 The Argument from Beauty and the Evolutionary Basis of Aesthetic Experience -- 8 The Argument from Miracles and the Cognitive Science of Religious Testimony -- 9 The Natural History of Religion and the Rationality of Religious Beliefs -- Notes -- References -- Index.
An examination of the cognitive foundations of intuitions about the existence and attributes of God.