Brian E Malley
Biographic Data
| ID | 7398374 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Brian E Malley |
| GIVEN NAMES | Brian E |
| FAMILY NAME | Malley |
| SIGNATURE | MALLEY B E |
| AFFILIATIONS | 1Department of Comparative Religion, Western Michigan University |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 5 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 3 |
| WORKS AS AUTHOR | 5 |
| WORKS AS EDITOR | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1994 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1997 |
| H-INDEX | 1 |
Causal holism in the evolution of religious ideas
The emerging cognitive psychology of religion
The emerging cognitive psychology of religion: A review article BRIAN E. MALLEY Mind matters.' Emile Durkheim's postulate about the independence of the social from the psychological notwithstanding, recent anthropological thought has increasingly recognized the role of cognition in organizing cultural phe- nomena. Religious phenomena figure prominently in cognitive anthropolog- ical discussions, because religion, in several ways, is a limiting ca…
Explaining order in religious systems1
Ours is a problem of order, cognitive and cultural. Were religion simply chaotic, we would not recognize it as an object of study. In this article, I outline two complementary approaches to religious phenomena; both aim to explain different aspects of order in religion. First, recently-developed cognitive theories of religious phenomena account for some aspects of cultural order in terms of cognitive constraints. Second, complexity theory offers …
Explaining order in religious systems
Ours is a problem of order, cognitive and cultural. Were religion simply chaotic, we would not recognize it as an object of study. In this article, I outline two complementary approaches to religious phenomena; both aim to explain different aspects of order in religion. First, recently-developed cognitive theories of religious phenomena account for some aspects of cultural order in terms of cognitive constraints. Second, complexity theory offers …
Reduction and religion
Cogmtivist theorizing about religion is promising, and this essay explores the ramifications of eliminative materialism for thinking about religion. First, and contrary to the assumption of eliminative matenalists, it is not obvious that the success of eliminative materialism would compromise the veracity of religious psychologies. Second, the success of eliminative materialism would prove the adequacy of formal theorizing for understanding relig…
Causal holism in the evolution of religious ideas
Explaining order in religious systems1
Ours is a problem of order, cognitive and cultural. Were religion simply chaotic, we would not recognize it as an object of study. In this article, I outline two complementary approaches to religious phenomena; both aim to explain different aspects of order in religion. First, recently-developed cognitive theories of religious phenomena account for some aspects of cultural order in terms of cognitive constraints. Second, complexity theory offers …
Explaining order in religious systems
Ours is a problem of order, cognitive and cultural. Were religion simply chaotic, we would not recognize it as an object of study. In this article, I outline two complementary approaches to religious phenomena; both aim to explain different aspects of order in religion. First, recently-developed cognitive theories of religious phenomena account for some aspects of cultural order in terms of cognitive constraints. Second, complexity theory offers …
Reduction and religion
Cogmtivist theorizing about religion is promising, and this essay explores the ramifications of eliminative materialism for thinking about religion. First, and contrary to the assumption of eliminative matenalists, it is not obvious that the success of eliminative materialism would compromise the veracity of religious psychologies. Second, the success of eliminative materialism would prove the adequacy of formal theorizing for understanding relig…
Explaining order in religious systems1
Ours is a problem of order, cognitive and cultural. Were religion simply chaotic, we would not recognize it as an object of study. In this article, I outline two complementary approaches to religious phenomena; both aim to explain different aspects of order in religion. First, recently-developed cognitive theories of religious phenomena account for some aspects of cultural order in terms of cognitive constraints. Second, complexity theory offers …
Explaining order in religious systems
Ours is a problem of order, cognitive and cultural. Were religion simply chaotic, we would not recognize it as an object of study. In this article, I outline two complementary approaches to religious phenomena; both aim to explain different aspects of order in religion. First, recently-developed cognitive theories of religious phenomena account for some aspects of cultural order in terms of cognitive constraints. Second, complexity theory offers …
The emerging cognitive psychology of religion
The emerging cognitive psychology of religion: A review article BRIAN E. MALLEY Mind matters.' Emile Durkheim's postulate about the independence of the social from the psychological notwithstanding, recent anthropological thought has increasingly recognized the role of cognition in organizing cultural phe- nomena. Religious phenomena figure prominently in cognitive anthropolog- ical discussions, because religion, in several ways, is a limiting ca…
Causal holism in the evolution of religious ideas
Epistemology (5 works) · Philosophy (5 works) · Sociology (5 works) · Philosophy (4 works) · Psychology (4 works) · Religion and Society Interactions (4 works) · Cognition (3 works) · Study and Philosophy of Religion (3 works) · Artificial Intelligence (2 works) · Chaotic (2 works)