What Can Evolved Minds Know of God? An Assessment from the Standpoint of Evolutionary Epistemology

Humans can only act successfully in the world because many of their mental concepts of that world—for example, three-dimensional space—are objectively valid: hence the approach of evolutionary epistemology (EE). An overall world picture, “Umwelt,” is peculiar to each animal species as their sensory...

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Published in:Zygon
Main Author: Spurway, Neil 1936- (Author)
Format: Electronic Article
Language:English
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Published: Wiley-Blackwell 2022
In: Zygon
Further subjects:B apophatic theology
B Apostles' Creed
B William Wordsworth
B Pseudo-dionysius
B Konrad Lorenz
B Environment
B evolutionary epistemology
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