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Plotinus: Enneads - Electronic Text

From the preface: The Enneads, from the great philosopher Plotinus, has exerted a considerable influence on Western civilization, including our present time. Plotinus himself was taught by Ammonius...
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The Biology of Belief (Time Magazine 2009)

TIME http://www.time.com/time/health/artic... The Biology of Belief By JEFFREY KLUGER Thursday, Feb. 12, 2009 Most folks probably couldn't locate their parietal lobe with...
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A Preliminary Study of the Acute Effects of Religious Ritual on Anxiety (Newberg 2008)

http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/18... J Altern Complement Med. 2008 Mar;14(2):163-5. A preliminary study of the acute effects of religious ritual on anxiety. Anastasi MW, Newberg AB. Univer...
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A Preliminary Study of the Acute Effects of Religious Ritual on Anxiety (Newberg 2008)

http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/18... J Altern Complement Med. 2008 Mar;14(2):163-5. A preliminary study of the acute effects of religious ritual on anxiety. Anastasi MW, Newberg AB. Univer...
  • Antonio HNC published this 06 / 17 / 2009
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The Religious Brain Turning Ideas Into Convictions (Deeley 2004)

Peter Q. Deeley* THE RELIGIOUS BRAIN Turning ideas into convictions This paper is a critical review of anthropology and cognitive science that proposes social, cognitive, and neural mechanisms tha...
  • Antonio HNC published this 06 / 16 / 2009
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The Naturalness of Religión and the Unnaturalness of Science (McCauley 2000)

The Naturalness of Religion and the Unnaturalness of Science by Robert N. McCauley Department of Philosophy Emory University Atlanta, Georgia 30322 U.S.A. philrnm@emory.edu To appear in Explanat...
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Intuition and Autism - A Possible Role for Von Economo Neurons (Allman Et Al 2005)

Opinion TRENDS in Cognitive Sciences Vol.9 No.8 August 2005 Intuition and autism: a possible role for Von Economo neurons John M. Allman, Karli K. Watson, Nicole A. Tetreault and Atiya Y. Hakeem...
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Moral Intuition - Its Neural Substrates and Normative Significance (Woodward & Allman 2007)

Moral Intuition: Its Neural Substrates and Normative Significance James Woodward Division of the Humanities and Social Sciences, 101-40 Corresponding Author: John Allman Division of Biology, 216-76...
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Cognitive and Neural Foundations of Religious Belief (Kapogiannis Et Al 2008)

Cognitive and neural foundations of religious belief Dimitrios Kapogiannisa,b, Aron K. Barbeya,c, Michael Sua, Giovanna Zambonia, Frank Kruegera, and Jordan Grafmana,1 Institute of Neurological Dis...
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Do You Believe in Magic (New York Times 2007)

Do You Believe in Magic? By BENEDICT CAREY Published: January 23, 2007 http://www.nytimes.com/2007/01/23/hea... A graduate school application can go sour in ...
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Amazing Grace - Religion and the Evolution of the Human Mind (Pyysiainen 2006)

Amazing grace: Religion and the evolution of the human mind Ilkka Pyysiäinen (To appear in: In Where man and God meet: How the brain and evolutionary sciences are revolutionizing our understanding ...
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Religious Concepts are Probable Epiphenomena - A Reply to Pyysiäinen, Boyer, and Barrett (Bering 200

Religious Concepts are Probably Epiphenomena: A Reply to Pyysiäinen, Boyer, and Barrett J ESSE M. B ERING ¤ It is to the commentators’ great credit that they have managed to cull the conceptual imp...
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Spreading Non-natural Concepts (Barrett & Nyhof 2001) apoyo a Boyer - éxito de de transmisión de con

Spreading Non-natural Concepts: The Role of Intuitive Conceptual Structures in Memory and Transmission of Cultural Materials¤ J USTIN L. B ARRETT¤¤ and M ELANIE A. N YHOF¤¤ ABSTRACT The four experi...
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Alienation, Recovered Animism and Altered States of Consciousness (Chalton 2007)

Alienation, recovered animism and altered states of consciousness. Charlton BG. Alienation is the feeling that life is 'meaningless', that we do not belong in the world. But alienation is not an in...
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Minimal Counter Intuitiveness (2008)

1    Minimal counterintuitiveness General questions Are certain concepts better than others at being transmitted and remembered? Do some religious concepts have these properties? Theory Intuitive ...
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How Communication Shapes Culture (2007)

Conway and Schaller 1 How Communication Shapes Culture Lucian Gideon Conway, III & Mark Schaller (2007) Chapter in: K. Fiedler (Ed.), Social Communication (107-127). New York: Psychology Press "...
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The Role of Intuitive Conceptual Structures in Memory and Transmission of Cultural Materials (Barret

Spreading Non-natural Concepts: The Role of Intuitive Conceptual Structures in Memory and Transmission of Cultural Materials Authors: Barrett, Justin L.1; Nyhof, Melanie A.1 Source: Journal of Cogn...
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Functional Explanation and the Function of Explanation (Lombrozo & Carey 2006)

Cognition 99 (2006) 167–204 www.elsevier.com/locate/COGNIT Functional explanation and the function of explanation Tania Lombrozo*, Susan Carey Department of Psychology, Harvard University, 33 Kirk...
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Cognitive Science of Religion (Barrett 2007)

Religion Compass 1 (2007): 10.1111/j.1749-8171.2007. 00042.x Justin Cognitive Original Publishing 19??? 1 0 2007 Compass September 10.1111/j.1749-8171.2007. 00042.x 042 Journal Articles ©??? L. Barre...
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Acting as a Way of Thinking (''External Cognition'') 2004

“Acting as a way of thinking” Paper read at the conference “Performativity – A Paradigm for Studies of Art and Culture?” 29 November-3 December 2004, at the University of Copenhagen PhD student And...
  • Antonio HNC published this 06 / 16 / 2009
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