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In this important and original book, eminent scholar Barbara Herrnstein Smith describes, assesses, and reflects upon a set of contemporary intellectual projects involving science, religion, and human cognition. One, which Smith calls "the New Naturalism," is the effort to explain religion on the basis of cognitive science. Another, which she calls "the New Natural Theology," is the attempt to reconcile natural-scientific accounts of the world with traditional religious belief. These two projects, she suggests, are in many ways mirror images-or "natural reflections"-of each other. Examining these and related efforts from the perspective of a constructivist-pragmatist epistemology, Smith argues that crucial aspects of belief-religious and other-that remain elusive or invisible under dominant rationalist and computational models are illuminated by views of human cognition that stress its dynamic, embodied, and interactive features. She also demonstrates how constructivist understandings of the formation and stabilization of knowledge-scientific and other-alert us to similarities in the springs of science and religion that are elsewhere seen largely in terms of difference and contrast. In Natural Reflections, Smith develops a sophisticated approach to issues often framed only polemically. Recognizing science and religion as complex, distinct domains of human practice, she also insists on their significant historical connections and cognitive continuities and offers important new modes of engagement with each of them

Pt. I. Responsibility and selfhood. Responsible fictions / David Roochnik -- Responsibility without a self / Malcolm David Eckel -- "The way is made in the walking": responsibility as relational virtuosity / Roger T. Ames -- "Where art thou?": biblical perspectives on responsibility / Michael Zank. Pt. II. Responsible roles toward other human beings. Moral responsibility in a democratic society / Bhikhu Parekh -- Am I my brother's keeper? An Aristotelian take on responsibility for others / Anna Lännström -- Tasteless historical stories: a historical theologian's responsibility to past and present / Margaret R. Miles -- Balancing medicine's moral ledger: realigning trust and responsibility / Alfred I. Tauber -- Responsibilities of corporations: managing profitably and morally / Tom Chappell. Pt. III. Responsibility toward nonhuman beings and the Earth. Toward an art of dwelling / Andrea Nightingale -- Ecological and social responsibility: the making of the Earth Charter / Steven C. Rockefeller. Appendix: The Earth Charter

Why a psychology of sex and gender? -- Methodological considerations when studying sex and gender -- Stereotypes, mythology, and media messages -- Theoretical explanations for gender identity : biological through neo-Freudian perspectives -- Theoretical explanations for gender identity : cognitive through environmental perspectives -- A developmental overview : prenatal development through childhood -- Topics in childhood -- A developmental overview : adolescence and young adulthood -- Topics in adolescence and young adulthood -- A developmental overview : adulthood -- Current topics in adulthood

Introduction: Scandals of Knowledge -- Pre-Post-Modern Relativism -- Netting Truth: Ludwik Fleck's Constructivist Genealogy -- Cutting-Edge Equivocation: Conceptual Moves and Rhetorical Strategies in Contemporary Anti-Epistemology -- Disciplinary Cultures and Tribal Warfare: The Sciences and the Humanities Today -- Super Natural Science: The Claims of Evolutionary Psychology -- Animal Relatives, Difficult Relations