In the Natural history of religion, Hume attempts to understand the origin of our folk belief in gods and spirits. These investigations are not, however, purely descriptive. Hume demonstrates that ontological commitment to supernatural agents depends on motivated reasoning and illusions of control. These beliefs cannot, then, be reflectively endorsed. This proposal must be taken seriously because it receives support from recent work on our psychological responses to uncertainty. It also compares quite favorably with its main competitors in the cognitive science of religio
Hume is an experimental philosopher who attempts to understand why we think, feel, and act as we do....
A large chorus of voices has grown around the claim that theistic belief is epistemically suspect si...
Hume thinks the exemplar of human knowledge is not absolutely certain 'knowledge' but our ordinary b...
In the Natural history of religion, Hume attempts to understand the origin of our folk belief in god...
The paper traces Hume's naturalism on both empirical and methodological levels. By ignoring the abso...
Hume's 'Natural History of Religion' offers a naturalized account of the causes of religious thought...
In the period of the Scottish Enlightenment the term ‘natural religion’was used to refer to two imp...
This purpose of the present inquiry is to study the relationship between David Hume’s doxastic natur...
We utilize contemporary cognitive and social science of religion to defend a controversial thesis: t...
Hume rises in a period of time that world was strongly influenced by growth of science. But, since t...
The cognitive science of religion integrates insights from diverse scientific disciplines to explain...
Cognitive approaches to religious phenomena have attracted considerable interdisciplinary attention ...
The paper aims to analyze the concept of habit in Hume and its operations in two theoretical dimensi...
This chapter focuses on human nature and morality, realms that resisted the early modern move away f...
This study attempts to trace how religion could have originated in prehistory and antiquity, out...
Hume is an experimental philosopher who attempts to understand why we think, feel, and act as we do....
A large chorus of voices has grown around the claim that theistic belief is epistemically suspect si...
Hume thinks the exemplar of human knowledge is not absolutely certain 'knowledge' but our ordinary b...
In the Natural history of religion, Hume attempts to understand the origin of our folk belief in god...
The paper traces Hume's naturalism on both empirical and methodological levels. By ignoring the abso...
Hume's 'Natural History of Religion' offers a naturalized account of the causes of religious thought...
In the period of the Scottish Enlightenment the term ‘natural religion’was used to refer to two imp...
This purpose of the present inquiry is to study the relationship between David Hume’s doxastic natur...
We utilize contemporary cognitive and social science of religion to defend a controversial thesis: t...
Hume rises in a period of time that world was strongly influenced by growth of science. But, since t...
The cognitive science of religion integrates insights from diverse scientific disciplines to explain...
Cognitive approaches to religious phenomena have attracted considerable interdisciplinary attention ...
The paper aims to analyze the concept of habit in Hume and its operations in two theoretical dimensi...
This chapter focuses on human nature and morality, realms that resisted the early modern move away f...
This study attempts to trace how religion could have originated in prehistory and antiquity, out...
Hume is an experimental philosopher who attempts to understand why we think, feel, and act as we do....
A large chorus of voices has grown around the claim that theistic belief is epistemically suspect si...
Hume thinks the exemplar of human knowledge is not absolutely certain 'knowledge' but our ordinary b...