Pascal Boyer
Biographic Data
| ID | 3611580 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Pascal Boyer |
| GIVEN NAMES | Pascal |
| FAMILY NAME | Boyer |
| SIGNATURE | BOYER P |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 6 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 13 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 4 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 2 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1993 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2018 |
| H-INDEX | 1 |
Minds make societies: How Cognition Explains the World Humans Create
A watershed book that masterfully integrates insights from evolutionary biology, genetics, psychology, economics, and more to explore the development and workings of human societies "There is no good reason why human societies should not be described and explained with the same precision and success as the rest of nature." Thus argues evolutionary psychologist Pascal Boyer in this uniquely innovative book. Integrating recent insights from evoluti…
Memory in Mind and Culture
This text introduces students, scholars, and interested educated readers to the issues of human memory broadly considered, encompassing both individual memory, collective remembering by societies, and the construction of history. The book is organised around several major questions: How do memories construct our past? How do we build shared collective memories? How does memory shape history? This volume presents a special perspective, emphasising…
Naturalness of Religious Ideas: A Cognitive Theory of Religion
The structure of religious categories
All contributions in this section deal with the question of conceptual structure. Religious ideas are organised by concepts which carry certain tacit assumptions and constrain the range of inferences and conjectures subjects can make about religious entities and processes. The problem is to describe the mental structures which make it possible for subjects to use religious categories. The diversity of models presented here is a reflection of the …
Cognitive aspects of religious symbolism
How are religious ideas represented, acquired and transmitted? Confronted with religious practices, anthropologists have typically been content with sociological generalisations, informed by vague, intuitive models of cognitive processes. Yet modern cognitive theories promise a fresh understanding of how religious ideas are learnt; and if the same cognitive processes can be shown to underlie all reiigious ideologies, then the comparative study of…
Cognitive Aspects of Religious Symbolism
How are religious ideas presented, acquired and transmitted? Confronted with religious practices, anthropologists have typically been content with sociological generalizations, informed by vague, intuitive models of cognitive processes. Yet the modern cognitive theories promise a fresh understanding of how religious ideas are learnt; and if the same cognitive processes can be shown to underlie all religious ideologies, then the comparative study …
Cognitive Aspects of Religious Symbolism
How are religious ideas presented, acquired and transmitted? Confronted with religious practices, anthropologists have typically been content with sociological generalizations, informed by vague, intuitive models of cognitive processes. Yet the modern cognitive theories promise a fresh understanding of how religious ideas are learnt; and if the same cognitive processes can be shown to underlie all religious ideologies, then the comparative study …
The structure of religious categories
All contributions in this section deal with the question of conceptual structure. Religious ideas are organised by concepts which carry certain tacit assumptions and constrain the range of inferences and conjectures subjects can make about religious entities and processes. The problem is to describe the mental structures which make it possible for subjects to use religious categories. The diversity of models presented here is a reflection of the …
Cognitive aspects of religious symbolism
How are religious ideas represented, acquired and transmitted? Confronted with religious practices, anthropologists have typically been content with sociological generalisations, informed by vague, intuitive models of cognitive processes. Yet modern cognitive theories promise a fresh understanding of how religious ideas are learnt; and if the same cognitive processes can be shown to underlie all reiigious ideologies, then the comparative study of…
Cognitive Aspects of Religious Symbolism
How are religious ideas presented, acquired and transmitted? Confronted with religious practices, anthropologists have typically been content with sociological generalizations, informed by vague, intuitive models of cognitive processes. Yet the modern cognitive theories promise a fresh understanding of how religious ideas are learnt; and if the same cognitive processes can be shown to underlie all religious ideologies, then the comparative study …
Naturalness of Religious Ideas: A Cognitive Theory of Religion
Memory in Mind and Culture
This text introduces students, scholars, and interested educated readers to the issues of human memory broadly considered, encompassing both individual memory, collective remembering by societies, and the construction of history. The book is organised around several major questions: How do memories construct our past? How do we build shared collective memories? How does memory shape history? This volume presents a special perspective, emphasising…
Minds make societies: How Cognition Explains the World Humans Create
A watershed book that masterfully integrates insights from evolutionary biology, genetics, psychology, economics, and more to explore the development and workings of human societies "There is no good reason why human societies should not be described and explained with the same precision and success as the rest of nature." Thus argues evolutionary psychologist Pascal Boyer in this uniquely innovative book. Integrating recent insights from evoluti…
Cognition (3 works) · Religiao (3 works) · Sociology (3 works) · Cognitieve processen (2 works) · Cognition (2 works) · Cognition and culture (2 works) · Cognition et culture (2 works) · Cognitive Psychology (2 works) · Epistemology (2 works) · Megismerés (2 works)