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Animism and Philosophy of Religion Tiddy Smith

Animism and Philosophy of Religion By Tiddy Smith

Animism and Philosophy of Religion by Tiddy Smith


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Mainstream philosophy of religion has persistently failed to engage seriously or critically with animist beliefs and practices. 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.

Animism and Philosophy of Religion Summary

Animism and Philosophy of Religion by Tiddy Smith

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.


About Tiddy Smith

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.

Table of Contents

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

Additional information

NPB9783030941697
9783030941697
3030941698
Animism and Philosophy of Religion by Tiddy Smith
New
Hardback
Springer Nature Switzerland AG
2023-02-26
371
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