| Journal: | Ludus vitalis |
| Database: | CLASE |
| System number: | 000406058 |
| ISSN: | 1133-5165 |
| Authors: | Vélez, Juan C1 |
| Institutions: | 1Universidad Autónoma de Occidente, Departamento de Humanidades, Cali, Valle del Cauca. Colombia |
| Year: | 2012 |
| Volumen: | 20 |
| Number: | 38 |
| Pages: | 123-143 |
| Country: | México |
| Language: | Español |
| Document type: | Artículo |
| Approach: | Analítico |
| English abstract | In this paper I propose a way to understand the religious phenomenon from religious ontology without excluding science, particularly the Cognitive Sciences. The theory of the modularity of the mind and evolutionary psychology help us understand the origin of dualism and the teleology underlying the way in which minds hosted some religious beliefs. I will argue, from the naturalism of Dennett, Boyer and Dawkins, that religious phenomena are not a biological adaptation but a by-product of psychological mechanisms designed for other activities, such as prediction of our behavior and understanding of other living beings and natural phenomena |
| Disciplines: | Religión, Filosofía |
| Keyword: | Filosofía de la ciencia, Historia y filosofía de la religión, Ontología, Evolución, Cognición, Modularidad, Adaptación, Religiosidad |
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