Michael Murray is the Arthur and Katherine Shadek Professor in the Humanities and Philosophy at Franklin and Marshall College (Lancaster, PA). He received his B.A. at Franklin & Marshall College, and his M.A, and Ph.D at the University of Notre Dame. He has held fellowships from the Institute for Research in the Humanities (Madison, Wisconsin), the National Endowment for the Humanities, the American Philosophical Society, and the Notre Dame Center for Philosophy of Religion.

it is impossible in a short review to do justice to these diverse treasures... this is a volume of welcome breadth and depth and is a must-read for anyone deeply interested in current science-and-religion issues.

• 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 Accident' ; 7. Games Scientists Play ; 8. Scientific Explanations of Religion and the Justification of Religious Belief ; 9. Evolutionary Accounts of Religion: Explaining and Explaining Away ; 10. Explaining Religious Experience ; 11. Humanness in their hearts: Where science and religion fuse ; 12. Theology and Evolution: How Much Can Biology Explain ; 13. Cognitive Science and the Evolutionof Religion: A Philosophical and Theological Appraisal ; 14. Does Naturalism Warrant a Moral Belief in Universal Benevolence and Human Rights? ; 15. Moral Psychology and the Misunderstanding of Religion ; 16. Evolutionary Social Constructivism: Narrowing (but not yet bridging) the Gap

Michael Murray is the Arthur and Katherine Shadek Professor in the Humanities and Philosophy at Franklin and Marshall College (Lancaster, PA). He received his B.A. at Franklin & Marshall College, and his M.A, and Ph.D at the University of Notre Dame. He has held fellowships from the Institute for Research in the Humanities (Madison, Wisconsin), the National Endowment for the Humanities, the American Philosophical Society, and the Notre Dame Center for Philosophy of Religion.

it is impossible in a short review to do justice to these diverse treasures... this is a volume of welcome breadth and depth and is a must-read for anyone deeply interested in current science-and-religion issues.

• 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 Accident' ; 7. Games Scientists Play ; 8. Scientific Explanations of Religion and the Justification of Religious Belief ; 9. Evolutionary Accounts of Religion: Explaining and Explaining Away ; 10. Explaining Religious Experience ; 11. Humanness in their hearts: Where science and religion fuse ; 12. Theology and Evolution: How Much Can Biology Explain ; 13. Cognitive Science and the Evolutionof Religion: A Philosophical and Theological Appraisal ; 14. Does Naturalism Warrant a Moral Belief in Universal Benevolence and Human Rights? ; 15. Moral Psychology and the Misunderstanding of Religion ; 16. Evolutionary Social Constructivism: Narrowing (but not yet bridging) the Gap

Michael Murray is the Arthur and Katherine Shadek Professor in the Humanities and Philosophy at Franklin and Marshall College (Lancaster, PA). He received his B.A. at Franklin & Marshall College, and his M.A, and Ph.D at the University of Notre Dame. He has held fellowships from the Institute for Research in the Humanities (Madison, Wisconsin), the National Endowment for the Humanities, the American Philosophical Society, and the Notre Dame Center for Philosophy of Religion.

it is impossible in a short review to do justice to these diverse treasures... this is a volume of welcome breadth and depth and is a must-read for anyone deeply interested in current science-and-religion issues.

• 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 Accident' ; 7. Games Scientists Play ; 8. Scientific Explanations of Religion and the Justification of Religious Belief ; 9. Evolutionary Accounts of Religion: Explaining and Explaining Away ; 10. Explaining Religious Experience ; 11. Humanness in their hearts: Where science and religion fuse ; 12. Theology and Evolution: How Much Can Biology Explain ; 13. Cognitive Science and the Evolutionof Religion: A Philosophical and Theological Appraisal ; 14. Does Naturalism Warrant a Moral Belief in Universal Benevolence and Human Rights? ; 15. Moral Psychology and the Misunderstanding of Religion ; 16. Evolutionary Social Constructivism: Narrowing (but not yet bridging) the Gap