Revising Cognitive and Evolutionary Science of Religion

Konrad Szocik is a doctor of philosophy and assistant professor in Department of Social Sciences at University of Information Technology and Management in Rzeszów, Poland. His research interests include cognitive and evolutionary science of religion, evolution of cooperation, space ethics and bioethics, space philosophy and space policy, and the ethics of human enhancement.Hans Van Eyghen is assistant professor of Philosophy at Tilburg University the Netherlands. His research interests include religious epistemology, philosophy of religion and cognitive and evolutionary science of religion.

• Introduction.- Chapter1. Cognitive approach to the study of religion: basic concepts and theories.- Chapter2. Adaptationist account and pragmatic usefulness of religion.- Chapter3. Content biases versus context biases and the critique of intuitiveness and naturalness of religion.- Chapter4. Religion and biological evolution: what is right and what is wrong in Darwinian approach to the study of religion.- Chapter5. Religion and cultural evolution. Does supernatural punishment matter for evolution of altruism and cooperation?.- Chapter6. The challenge of atheism and non-belief for cognitive and evolutionary approach.- Chapter7. Why adaptationist account is better than cognitive one but both of them do not provide sufficient explanatory frameworks to explain religion.- Conclusion.