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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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Bibliographic Details
Call Number:Libro Electrónico
Main Author: Barnes, Michael Horace
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:Inglés
Published: Oxford ; New York : Oxford University Press, ©2000.
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Online Access:Texto completo
Table of Contents:
  • 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.