Wittgenstein and the Cognitive Science of Religion

Robert Vinten was formerly the postdoctoral research fellow in the project Epistemology of Religious Belief: Wittgenstein, Grammar and the Contemporary World at Universidade Nova, Portugal. He is currently commencing a new project concerning epistemic injustice.

• List of FiguresList of ContributorsAcknowledgementsIntroduction, Robert Vinten (New University of Lisbon, Portugal)1. Wittgenstein, Concepts and Human Nature, Roger Trigg (University of Warwick, UK) 2. On Truth, Language and Objectivity, Florian Franken Figueiredo (New University of Lisbon, Portugal)3. Pascal Boyer’s Miscellany of Homunculi: A Wittgensteinian Critique of Religion Explained, Robert Vinten (New University of Lisbon, Portugal)4. The Brain Perceives/ Infers, Hans Van Eyghen (Tilburg University, The Netherlands)5. The Imaginary Inner Inside the Cognitive Science of Religion, Christopher Hoyt (Western Carolina University, USA)6. Cognitive Theories And Wittgenstein: Looking For Convergence Not For Divergence, Olympia Panagiotidou (Aristotle University of Thessaloniki, Greece)7. Wittgenstein, Naturalism, and Interpreting Religious Phenomena, Thomas Carroll (The Chinese University of Hong Kong, Shenzhen)8. Natural Thoughts and Unnatural Oughts: Lessing, Wittgenstein, and Contemporary CSR, Guy Axtell (Radford University, USA)9. Normative Cognition in the Cognitive Science of Religion, Mark Addis (London School of Economics, UK)10. Brains as the Source of Being: Mind/Brain Focus and the Western Model of Mind in Dominant Cognitive Science Discourse, Rita McNamara (Victoria University of Wellington, New Zealand)11. On Religious Practices as Multiscale Active Inference: Certainties Emerging From Recurrent Interactions Within and Across Individuals and Groups, Inês Hipólito (Humboldt University, Germany) and Casper Hesp (University of Amsterdam, the Netherlands)ReferencesIndex

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