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Archaeology and history --- Social archaeology --- Cognition and culture --- Material culture --- Faith --- Hope --- Charity

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"Over the past decade, our understanding of the cognition of literature has been transformed by scientific discoveries, such as the mirror neuron system and its role in empathy. Addressing questions such as why we care so deeply about fictional characters, what brain activities are sparked when we read literature, and how literary works and scholarship can inform the cognitive sciences, this book surveys the exciting recent developments in the field of cognitive literary studies and includes contributions from leading scholars in both the humanities and the sciences. Beginning with an overview of the evolution of literary studies, the editors trace the recent shift from poststructuralism and its relativism to a growing interdisciplinary interest in the empirical realm of neuroscience. In illuminating essays that examine the cognitive processes at work when we experience fictional worlds, with findings on the brain's creativity sites, this collection also explores the impact of literature on self and society, ending with a discussion on the present and future of the psychology of fiction. Contributors include Literature and the Brain author Norman N. Holland, on the neuroscience of metafiction reflected in Don Quixote; clinical psychologist Aaron Mishara on the neurology of self in the hypnagogic (between waking and sleeping) state and its manifestations in Kafka's stories; and literary scholar Brad Sullivan's exploration of Romantic poetry as a didactic tool, applying David Hartley's eighteenth-century theories of sensory experience."--Publisher description.

Literature --- Literature and science. --- Cognition and culture. --- History and criticism --- Theory, etc.

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Depuis des décennies, les anthropologues voient dans l'esprit le produit exclusif d'une culture coupée de toute base biologique ou naturelle. Ils ignorent ou rejettent ce que les sciences neuronales et la psychologie cognitive nous apprennent sur le fonctionnement de l'esprit humain. Occupés à distinguer l'inné du culturel, leurs critiques cognitivistes sont quant à eux enfermés dans la même dichotomie. Pour surmonter cette opposition, il faut se représenter la cognition humaine non comme un état de choses statique, mais comme un processus unifié : une dynamique au sein de laquelle on peut distinguer l'histoire et les transformations du développement cognitif individuel, qui se déroulent ensemble. Retrouver une conception unitaire de l'esprit humain, telle est l'entreprise de ce livre novateur. Reprenant des questions classiques et controversées, le temps, le moi et la personne,les catégories de la pensée, la mémoire, il montre quels bénéfices l'anthropologie pourrait tirer d'un dialogue avec les sciences cognitives

Ethnopsychology --- Cognitive science --- Anthropology --- Cognition and culture --- Ethnopsychologie --- Sciences cognitives --- Anthropologie --- Cognition et culture --- Cognition et culture. --- Anthropologie. --- Ethnopsychologie.

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Information theory --- Communication --- Cognition and culture --- Perception --- Théorie de l'information --- Cognition et culture --- Technologies de l'information et de la communication --- Social aspects --- Technological innovations --- Aspect social

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The battle between religion and science, competing methods of knowing ourselves and our world, has been raging for many centuries. Now scientists themselves are looking at cognitive foundations of religion--and arriving at some surprising conclusions. Over the course of the past two decades, scholars have employed insights gleaned from cognitive science, evolutionary biology, and related disciplines to illuminate the study of religion. In Why Religion is Natural and Science Is Not, Robert N. McCauley, one of the founding fathers of the cognitive science of religion, argues that our minds are better suited to religious belief than to scientific inquiry. Drawing on the latest research and illustrating his argument with commonsense examples, McCauley argues that religion has existed for many thousands of years in every society because the kinds of explanations it provides are precisely the kinds that come naturally to human minds. Science, on the other hand, is a much more recent and rare development because it reaches radical conclusions and requires a kind of abstract thinking that only arises consistently under very specific social conditions. Religion makes intuitive sense to us, while science requires a lot of work. McCauley then draws out the larger implications of these findings. The naturalness of religion, he suggests, means that science poses no real threat to it, while the unnaturalness of science puts it in a surprisingly precarious position. Rigorously argued and elegantly written, this provocative book will appeal to anyone interested in the ongoing debate between religion and science, and in the nature and workings of the human mind.--Book jacket.

Philosophy of science --- Religious studies --- Psychology of religion --- Religious psychology --- Cognition and culture --- Psychology, Religious --- Religion and science --- 159.9:2 --- 215 --- Christianity and science --- Geology --- Geology and religion --- Science --- Science and religion --- Religion --- Religions --- Psychology and religion --- Culture and cognition --- Cognition --- Culture --- Ethnophilosophy --- Ethnopsychology --- Socialization --- 159.9:2 Godsdienstpsychologie --- Godsdienstpsychologie --- Godsdienst en wetenschap --- Religious aspects --- Psychological aspects --- Psychology --- Religion and science. --- Psychology, Religious. --- Cognition and culture. --- Religion et sciences --- Psychologie religieuse --- Cognition et culture