The 7E Model of the Human Mind: Articulating a Plastic Self for the Cognitive Science of Religion
This article proposes a 7E model of the human mind, which was developed within the cognitive paradigm in religious studies and its primary expression, the Cognitive Science of Religion (CSR). This study draws on the philosophically most sophisticated currents in the cognitive sciences, which have co...
| Subtitles: | The seven E Model of the Human Mind |
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| Format: | Electronic Article |
| Language: | English |
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Brill
[2019]
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| In: |
Journal of cognition and culture
Year: 2019, Volume: 19, Issue: 5, Pages: 450-476 |
| Standardized Subjects / Keyword chains: | B
Malabou, Catherine 1959-
/ Mind
/ Plasticity (Psychology)
/ Kognitive Religionswissenschaft
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| IxTheo Classification: | AA Study of religion AE Psychology of religion |
| Further subjects: | B
4E model of the mind
B Catherine Malabou B dual-process theories B consilience B Evolution B cognitive science of religion |
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| Summary: | This article proposes a 7E model of the human mind, which was developed within the cognitive paradigm in religious studies and its primary expression, the Cognitive Science of Religion (CSR). This study draws on the philosophically most sophisticated currents in the cognitive sciences, which have come to define the human mind through a 4E model as embodied, embedded, enactive, and extended. Introducing Catherine Malabou's concept of "plasticity," the study not only confirms the insight of the 4E model of the self as a decentered system, but it also recommends two further traits of the self that have been overlooked in the cognitive sciences, namely the negativity of plasticity and the tension between giving and receiving form. Finally, the article matures these philosophical insights to develop a concrete model of the religious mind, equipping it with three further Es, namely emotional, evolved, and exoconscious. |
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| ISSN: | 1568-5373 |
| Contains: | Enthalten in: Journal of cognition and culture
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| Persistent identifiers: | DOI: 10.1163/15685373-12340069 |