Dávná mysl : současná historiografie a kognitivní věda

Title:

Dávná mysl : současná historiografie a kognitivní věda
Past minds : present historiography and cognitive science

Creator:

Sørensen, Jesper

Contributor:

Chalupa, Aleš

Identifier:

https://hdl.handle.net/11222.digilib/125312

Subject:

historiography, cognition, evolutionary psychology, cultural determinism, dual inheritance theory, and Study of Religions

Type:

Article

Format:

text/pdf

Description:

In the last two decades, cognitive and evolutionary approaches have appeared as new and invigorating attempts to explain what religion is: how religious phenomena emerged, why they persist, and why we find recurring patterns across cultural and historical borders. When addressing such question from perspectives informed by evolutionary biology and cognitive science, a pertinent question arises: How do we reconcile these new theories, and more experimentally inclined approaches, with a more traditional historical and/or sociological study of religion? What can cognitive and evolutionary approaches teach a general science of religion? In this paper I argue that historiography must indeed take theoretical and explanatory models arising from cognitive and evolutionary approaches seriously, but that we need to conceptualize not only the relation between distinct explanatory levels, but also the constraints imposed by the scope of particular scholarly endeavors.

Language:

Czech

Rights:

unknown

Relation:

https://digilib.phil.muni.cz/en/handle/11222.digilib/124610
https://digilib.phil.muni.cz/en/_flysystem/fedora/pdf/125312.pdf

Harvested from:

Digital Library of Faculty of Arts of Masaryk University

Metadata only:

false

Date:

2010