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On the counterintuitive in everyday life (7)
7. In fairy tales In Religion Explained’s chapter two, Boyer, on the basis of research led by psychologists Frank Keil and Michael Kelly, offers the example of the famous folk tale theme of the … more →
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Are We Better Off Without Religion?
Karl Richard wrote 3 weeks ago: I read this article in The Guardian today… And, being a scientist myself, I’ve got to to … more →
Animism and Cognitive Science
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missivesfrommarx wrote 6 months ago: Many cognitive science approaches to religion start out by noting that humans have a tendency to ant … more →
Why religious beliefs?
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jason wrote 11 months ago: Continuing from parts one and two… Why do so many humans believe in the supernatural? Why do … more →
religion as comfort?
mconrsullivan wrote 11 months ago: The second shoot-from-the-hip explanation for the origin of religion that Boyer addresses in ch. 1 ( … more →
religion as explanation?
mconrsullivan wrote 11 months ago: In ch. 1 of his book, Religion Explained, P. Boyer addresses what he sees as four common, shoot-from … more →
genetic religion
mconrsullivan wrote 11 months ago: Pascal Boyer, in his book Religion Explained, considers the question of whether or not religion can … more →
book review: Religion Explained: The Evolutionary Origins of Religious Thought
mconrsullivan wrote 11 months ago: another book I’m sure to revisit frequently. Boyer makes a case for the various intuitive/cog … more →
A bunch of interesting reading
beast9 wrote 1 year ago: Sorry for a bit of delay between posts. Have been too busy with study/work/touch football (I have 4 … more →
On the counterintuitive in everyday life (7)
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Jean-Luc Jucker wrote 1 year ago: 7. In fairy tales In Religion Explained’s chapter two, Boyer, on the basis of research led by … more →
On the counterintuitive in everyday life (6)
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Jean-Luc Jucker wrote 1 year ago: 6. In comedy Just as in photography, in comedy there is also often something which is counterintuiti … more →
On the counterintuitive in everyday life (5)
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Jean-Luc Jucker wrote 1 year ago: 5. An example from photography Cartier-Bresson’s famous Derrière la gare Saint-Lazare and the … more →
On the counterintuitive in everyday life (4)
Jean-Luc Jucker wrote 1 year ago: 4. The counterintuitive in art According to Boyer’s discovery, religious and supernatural idea … more →
On the counterintuitive in everyday life (3)
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Jean-Luc Jucker wrote 1 year ago: 3. Boyer’s discovery: minimally counterintuitive concepts are easily noticed, recalled and pas … more →
On the counterintuitive in everyday life (2)
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Jean-Luc Jucker wrote 1 year ago: 2. Boyer’s recipe to create successful religious and supernatural concepts In his 2001 book Re … more →
On the counterintuitive in everyday life (1)
Jean-Luc Jucker wrote 1 year ago: 1. Introduction The aim of this new series of articles is to consider some phenomena of everyday li … more →
Why do people believe in Gods? Oxford to launch a $4 million research program on religious belief.
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RB wrote 1 year ago: Associate Press (via AZ Central) reports that the University of Oxford is about to embark on a nearl … more →
Pascal Boyer illustrates the one-sidedness that often comes with religious belief
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RB wrote 1 year ago: Pascal Boyer introduces the concluding chapter Why Belief? of his excellent book Religion Explained: … more →
