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Stages of thought : the co-evolution of religious thought and science /

In Stages of Thought, Michael Barnes examines a pattern of cognitive development that has evolved over thousands of years--a pattern manifest in both science and religion. He describes how the major world cultures built upon our natural human language skills to add literacy, logic, and, now, a highl...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Autor principal: Barnes, Michael Horace
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Oxford ; New York : Oxford University Press, ©2000.
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Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • Culture and cognition
  • Addressing the critics
  • Cognitive styles in primitive cultures
  • Archaic thought, preliterate and literate
  • The Axial Age and the classical style of thought
  • Philosophy, religion, and science in Western antiquity
  • The decline and recovery of classical rationality in the West
  • Early modern models of reality in science and religion
  • The method of modern empirical science
  • Religious responses to modern science.