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3343The Relevance of Hume's Natural History of Religion for Cognitive Science of ReligionRes Philosophica 92 (3): 653-674. 2015.Hume was a cognitive scientist of religion avant la lettre. His Natural History of Religion (1757 [2007]) locates the origins of religion in human nature. This paper explores similarities between some of his ideas and the cognitive science of religion, the multidisciplinary study of the psychological origins of religious beliefs. It also considers Hume’s distinction between two questions about religion: its foundation in reason (the domain of natural theology and philosophy of religion) and its …Read more
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151The artistic design stance and the interpretation of Paleolithic artBehavioral and Brain Sciences 36 (2): 139-140. 2013.The artistic design stance is an important part of art appreciation, but it remains unclear how it can be applied to artworks for which art historical context is no longer available, such as Ice Age art. We propose that some of the designer's intentions can be gathered noninferentially through direct experience with prehistoric artworks.
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