Jeffrey P Schlo

Biographic Data

ID4516092
NAMEJeffrey P Schlo
GIVEN NAMESJeffrey P
FAMILY NAMESchlo
SIGNATURESCHLO J P
AFFILIATIONSWestmont College
ORCID0000-0003-2344-9081
VERIFIEDYes
TOTAL WORKS11
TOTAL CITATIONS0
AUTHOR COUNT11
EDITOR COUNT0
FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR2002
LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR2018
H-INDEX0

  • Where one stops the car: On the importance of what one takes “religion” to be

    Jeffrey P SchloARTICLEReligion Brain & Behavior2018

  • Big Gods and the greater good

    Hillary L Lenfesty, Jeffrey P Schlo et al.ARTICLEReligion Brain & Behavior2015

    Ara Norenzayan's proposal that “prosocial religions, with their Big Gods who watch, intervene, and demand hard-to-fake loyalty displays, facilitated the rise of cooperation in large groups of anony

  • The Elephant in the Room: Do Evolutionary Accounts of Religion Entail the Falsity of Religious Belief?

    Dominic D P Johnson, Dominic Johnson et al.ARTICLEPhilosophy Theology and the…2014

    Recent evolutionary accounts seek to explain religious belief and behavior in terms of native cognitive dispositions and culturally transmitted innovations that have persisted because they have adaptive value. Despite the often vitriolic evolution-religion debate, new evolutionary theories typically avoid challenging the truth of religious beliefs. In this paper we do three things. (1) We describe five new developments in evolutionary theory that…

  • Mp3: The Meaning of a Format

    J Schlo, Jeffrey P Schlo et al.ARTICLEJournal of American History2013

    One of the defining cultural shifts of our era has been the startlingly rapid dissolution of the particular notion of intellectual property that shaped popular culture for most of the twentieth century. And perhaps no single element, aside from the Internet, did as much to challenge that notion as did the MP3 (short for MPEG-1 or MPEG-2 Audio Layer III), the dominant format for the online distribution of digitally encoded sound. But rather than c…

  • Whence atheists: Outliers or outlaws

    Jeffrey P Schlo, Jeffrey P SchlossARTICLEReligion Brain & Behavior2012

    At face value, the paucity of scientific accounts of atheism does not seem surprising: why should rejecting belief in invisible entities for which most cognitive scientists and biologists think no

  • Evolutionary accounts of belief in supernatural punishment: A critical review

    Jeffrey P Schlo, Jeffrey P Schloss et al.ARTICLEReligion Brain & Behavior2011

    Although largely unaddressed by evolutionary theory for more than a century after Darwin, over the last decade a wide range of adaptationist, byproduct, and memetic explanations have emerged for various recurrent features of religious belief and practice. One feature that has figured prominently in adaptationist accounts of religion is belief in the reality of moralizing, punishing supernatural agents. However, there is at present no unified theo…

  • How might evolution lead to hell

    Jeffrey P Schlo, Jeffrey P Schloss et al.ARTICLEReligion Brain & Behavior2011

    We are grateful to the respondents for thoughtfully illuminating points in our analysis they view as correct and important, for graciously pointing out the ambiguous or unpersuasive, and for sugges

  • Looking Past vs. Overlooking Cognitive-Evolutionary Accounts of Religion: A Response to Nathaniel Barrett

    Jeffrey P Schlo, J P Schloss et al.ARTICLEJournal of the American Academy…2010

    While emerging cognitive and evolutionary sciences of religion have generated important empirical findings and conceptual advances, Nathaniel Barrett is quite right to pursue integration with historical and cultural studies and to challenge the reductionism that is, if not endemic to, at least popularly ascribed to these approaches. However, we argue that in proposing an alternative paradigm, he mischaracterizes the breadth of the current researc…

  • The Believing Primate

    Jeffrey P Schlo, Jeffrey Schloss et al.BOOKThe believing primate2009

  • The Believing Primate: Scientific, Philosophical, and Theological Reflections on the Origin of Religion

    Michael J Murray, Jeffrey Schloss et al.BOOKThe believing primate2009

    Introduction 1. Hand of God, Mind of Man: Punishment and Cognition in the Evolution of Cooperation 2. Religiosity as mental time travel: cognitive adaptations for religious behavior 3. Cognitive Science, Religion & Theology 4. Is Religion Adaptive? Yes, no, neutral, but mostly we don't know 5. Religious Belief as an Evolutionary Accident 6. Explaining Belief in the Supernatural: Some thoughts on Paul Bloom's 'Religious Belief as Evolutionary Acci…

  • Altruism and Altruistic LoveScience, Philosophy, and Religion in Dialogue

    Stephen G Post, Lynn G Underwood et al.BOOKAltruism & altruistic love2002

    The concept of altruism, or disinterested concern for another's welfare, has been discussed by everyone from theologians to psychologists to biologists. In this book, evolutionary, neurological, developmental, psychological, social, cultural, and religious aspects of altruistic behavior are examined. It is a collaborative examination of one of humanity's essential and defining characteristics by researchers from various disciplines. Their integra…