Animism and Philosophy of Religion

ISBN-13: 9783030941697 / Angielski / Twarda / 2023

Spis treści

Chapter One: Introduction   1

Chapter Two: Animism and Cognitive Science of Religion: A Critical Perspective   25

Chapter Three: Wilkinson’s “Animism and Cognitive Science of Religion”  48

Chapter Four: Edward Tylor’s Animism and Its Intellectual Aftermath   68

Chapter Five: Animisms: Practical Indigenous Philosophies  105

Chapter Six: New Animism as Cultural Critique?  138

Chapter Seven: Animism and Naturalism: Practice and Theory  173

Chapter Eight: Sensible Animism    204

Chapter Nine: Animism: Its Scope and Limits  223

Chapter Ten: Scientific Animism    257

Chapter Eleven: Childhood Animism and Innate Belief  294

Chapter Twelve: An Epistemic Defense of Animism    327

Chapter Thirteen: Robotic Animism: The Ethics of Attributing Minds and Personality to Robots with Artificial Intelligence   360

Chapter Fourteen: Towards a Cosmopolitan Animism

 

O autorze

Tiddy Smith is a Lecturer in the Department of Philosophy at Massey University. He is the author of The Methods of Science and Religion (Rowman and Littlefield) and has published various articles in journals such as the Australasian Journal of Philosophy, Erkenntnis, International Journal for Philosophy of Religion, and Philosophia.

Blurb

Mainstream philosophy of religion has persistently failed to engage seriously or critically with animist beliefs and practices. The field that is now called "philosophy of religion" could quite easily be renamed "philosophy of theism" with few lecturers on the subject having to change their lecture notes. It is the aim of this volume to rectify that failure and to present animism as a live option among the plethora of religious worldviews.

The volume addresses four major questions: 1. What is this thing called "animism"? 2. Are there any arguments for or against animist belief and practice? 3. What is the relationship between animism, naturalism, and the sciences? And 4. Should we take animism seriously?

Animism and Philosophy of Religion is intended to be the first authoritative scholarly volume on the issue of animism and its place in the philosophy of religion. Ambitiously, it aims to act as the cornerstone volume for future work on the subject and as a key text for courses engaging with the subject.

Tiddy Smith is a Lecturer in the Department of Philosophy at Massey University. He is the author of The Methods of Science and Religion (Rowman and Littlefield) and has published various articles in journals such as the Australasian Journal of Philosophy, Erkenntnis, International Journal for Philosophy of Religion, and Philosophia.