and the Study of Religion

Donald Davidson’s concept of “anomalous monism ” is not nearly as well known as his related attack on the idea of “conceptual schemes, ” though they are closely related. Th is concept, I shall argue, has several important implications for the study of religion. In particular, it implies that, as an account of mind and language, “cognitive science ” is going to be of limited interest. More-over, and that approaches to the study of religion based on models drawn from cognitive science are likely to be “degenerate research programmes. ” If this is so, then we can reasonably marginal-ize such programmes to the extent that they compete with more promising projects