Bibliography

The "Nature" of Belief: Evolutionary Explanation, Biological Function, and Divine Purpose

The titles below are recommended background reading for the conference. They are assigned readings from the 2004 summer seminar Nature in Belief: Evolutionary Explanation, Biological Function, and Religious Purpose.

Atran, Scott. 2002. In Gods We Trust: The Evolutionary Landscape of Religion. Oxford University Press. Chapters 1,8,10.

Barrett, Justin. 2004. Why Would Anyone Believe in God? AltaMira Press.

Bering, JM & Johnson, DDP. 2005. "Recursiveness in the cognitive evolution of supernatural agency." Journal of Cognition and Culture. 5(1/2): 118-142.

Casebeer, William. 2003. Natural Ethical Facts. MIT Press. Chapters 1-3, 7.

Clayton, Philip and Schloss, Jeffrey., eds. 2004. Evolution and Ethics: Human Morality in Biological and Religious Perspective. Eerdmans. Preface (Schloss), Chapter 9 (Hare).

Fodor, Jerry. 2000. In Critical Condition. MIT Press. Chapters 8, 14, 15, 17.

Haught, John. 2003. Deeper Than Darwin: The Prospect for Religion in the Age of Evolution. Westview Press.

Haught, John. 2001. God After Darwin: A Theology of Evolution. Westview Press.

Johnson, DDP & Krueger, O. 2004. "Supernatural punishment and the evolution of cooperation." Political Theology. 5 (2): 159-176.

Pinker, Stephen. 1997. How the Mind Works. Norton. pp. 554-559.

Plantinga, Alvin. 1999. "An Evolutionary Argument Against Naturalism" in Warranted Christian Belief. Oxford University Press. pp, 227-240.

Plantinga, Alvin. 1994. Warrant and Proper Function. Oxford University Press. Chapter 12.

Plantinga, Alvin, "Methodological Naturalism?", in Facets of Faith and Science, vol. 1, ed. J. van der Meer. 1996. Lanham, MA: University Press of America. pp. 177-221.

Plantinga, Alvin. The Twin Pillars of Christian Scholarship. Stob Lectures.

Ruse, Michael. "Evolutionary Theory and Christian Ethics: Are they in conflict?” Zygon, vol 29, no. 1, pp. 5-24.

Schloss, J. P. 2000. "Wisdom Traditions as Mechanisms for Organismal Integration: Evolutionary Perspectives on Homeostatic ‘Laws of Life.’” In Understanding Wisdom: Sources, Science, and Society. Warren Brown, editor. Templeton Foundation Press. 153-191.

Schloss, J.P. 2002. “Emerging Accounts of Altruism: ‘Love Creation’s Final Law’?” In, Post, S., Underwood, L., Schloss, J., and Hurlbut, W. eds. Altruism and Altruistic Love: Science, Philosophy, and Religion in Dialogue. Oxford University Press. 212-243.

Simon, Herbert. 1990. "A Mechanism for Social Selection and Successful Altruism." Science Dec. 21, 1990 vol. 250 no. 4988 p. 1665 (4)

Smith, Christian. 2003. Moral Believing Animals: Human Personhood and Culture. Oxford University Press. Chapters 2, 5.

Taliaferro, Charles. 2005. Consciousness and the Mind of God. Cambridge University Press.

Ward, Keith. 1998. Religion & Human Nature. Oxford University Press. Chapter 6.

Wilson, David Sloan. 2002. Darwin’s Cathedral: Evolution, Religion, and The Nature of Society. University of Chicago Press.

Wilson, David Sloan. 1990. "Species of Thought: a Comment on Evolutionary Epistemology." Biology and Philosophy 5: 37-62.

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