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Wild Experiment
Feeling Science and Secularism after Darwin
Taschenbuch von Donovan O. Schaefer
Sprache: Englisch

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In Wild Experiment, Donovan O. Schaefer challenges the conventional wisdom that feeling and thinking are separate. Drawing on science studies, philosophy, affect theory, secularism studies, psychology, and contemporary literary criticism, Schaefer reconceptualizes rationality as defined by affective processes at every level. He introduces the model of "cogency theory" to reconsider the relationship between evolutionary biology and secularism, examining mid-nineteenth-century Darwinian controversies, the 1925 Scopes Trial, and the New Atheist movement of the 2000s. Along the way, Schaefer reappraises a range of related issues, from secular architecture at Oxford to American eugenics to contemporary climate denialism. These case studies locate the intersection of thinking and feeling in the way scientific rationality balances excited discovery with anxious scrutiny, in the fascination of conspiracy theories, and in how racist feelings assume the mantle of rational objectivity. The fact that cognition is felt, Schaefer demonstrates, is both why science succeeds and why it fails. He concludes that science, secularism, atheism, and reason itself are not separate from feeling but comprehensively defined by it.
In Wild Experiment, Donovan O. Schaefer challenges the conventional wisdom that feeling and thinking are separate. Drawing on science studies, philosophy, affect theory, secularism studies, psychology, and contemporary literary criticism, Schaefer reconceptualizes rationality as defined by affective processes at every level. He introduces the model of "cogency theory" to reconsider the relationship between evolutionary biology and secularism, examining mid-nineteenth-century Darwinian controversies, the 1925 Scopes Trial, and the New Atheist movement of the 2000s. Along the way, Schaefer reappraises a range of related issues, from secular architecture at Oxford to American eugenics to contemporary climate denialism. These case studies locate the intersection of thinking and feeling in the way scientific rationality balances excited discovery with anxious scrutiny, in the fascination of conspiracy theories, and in how racist feelings assume the mantle of rational objectivity. The fact that cognition is felt, Schaefer demonstrates, is both why science succeeds and why it fails. He concludes that science, secularism, atheism, and reason itself are not separate from feeling but comprehensively defined by it.
Über den Autor
Donovan O. Schaefer
Inhaltsverzeichnis
Introduction. Cogency Theory: An Essay on Our Intellectual Affects 1
Part I. Cogency Theory
1. The Longing to Believe: Philosophers on Conspiracy Theory and the Sense of Science 33
2. Sensualized Epistemology: Affect Theory on How Reason Gets Racialized 57
3. Science as an Intoxication: Secularism Studies on Enchantment and Critique 80
4. Feeling is Believing: The Triune Brain, Mere Exposure, and Cogency 107
Part II. Feeling Science and Secularism
5. Only Better Beasts: Darwin, Huxley, and the Sense of Science 137
6. The Secular Circus: Science and Racialized Reason in the Scopes Trial 169
7. The Four Horsemen: New Atheism as Secular Conspiracy Theory 200
Epilogue. From Creationism to Climate Denialism 230
Acknowledgments 239
Notes 243
Bibliography 281
Index
Details
Erscheinungsjahr: 2022
Genre: Religion & Theologie
Rubrik: Geisteswissenschaften
Medium: Taschenbuch
Inhalt: Kartoniert / Broschiert
ISBN-13: 9781478018254
ISBN-10: 1478018259
Sprache: Englisch
Ausstattung / Beilage: Paperback
Einband: Kartoniert / Broschiert
Autor: Schaefer, Donovan O.
Hersteller: Duke University Press
Maße: 229 x 152 x 18 mm
Von/Mit: Donovan O. Schaefer
Erscheinungsdatum: 03.06.2022
Gewicht: 0,474 kg
Artikel-ID: 120311976
Über den Autor
Donovan O. Schaefer
Inhaltsverzeichnis
Introduction. Cogency Theory: An Essay on Our Intellectual Affects 1
Part I. Cogency Theory
1. The Longing to Believe: Philosophers on Conspiracy Theory and the Sense of Science 33
2. Sensualized Epistemology: Affect Theory on How Reason Gets Racialized 57
3. Science as an Intoxication: Secularism Studies on Enchantment and Critique 80
4. Feeling is Believing: The Triune Brain, Mere Exposure, and Cogency 107
Part II. Feeling Science and Secularism
5. Only Better Beasts: Darwin, Huxley, and the Sense of Science 137
6. The Secular Circus: Science and Racialized Reason in the Scopes Trial 169
7. The Four Horsemen: New Atheism as Secular Conspiracy Theory 200
Epilogue. From Creationism to Climate Denialism 230
Acknowledgments 239
Notes 243
Bibliography 281
Index
Details
Erscheinungsjahr: 2022
Genre: Religion & Theologie
Rubrik: Geisteswissenschaften
Medium: Taschenbuch
Inhalt: Kartoniert / Broschiert
ISBN-13: 9781478018254
ISBN-10: 1478018259
Sprache: Englisch
Ausstattung / Beilage: Paperback
Einband: Kartoniert / Broschiert
Autor: Schaefer, Donovan O.
Hersteller: Duke University Press
Maße: 229 x 152 x 18 mm
Von/Mit: Donovan O. Schaefer
Erscheinungsdatum: 03.06.2022
Gewicht: 0,474 kg
Artikel-ID: 120311976
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