Description: Examines the relevance of Wittgenstein's remarks about philosophy, psychology, science and religion and the cognitive science of religion for the first time.
Brief description: Robert Vinten was formerly the postdoctoral research fellow in the project Epistemology of Religious Belief: Wittgenstein, Grammar and the Contemporary World at Universidade Nova, Portugal. He is currently commencing a new project concerning epistemic injustice.
Review Quotes:
"The collection ... keeps its focus well on its subject ... This book graphically shows that [the arguments presented] take us to the roots of our understanding of what it is to behuman." --Theology
"Wittgenstein and the Cognitive Science of Religion fills a gap in the literature exploring in illuminating and provocative ways how Wittgenstein's thought can be profitably used in the emerging field of cognitive science of religion." --Nuno Venturinha, Assistant Professor of Philosophy, NOVA University of Lisbon, Portugal "This collection of essays, edited by Robert Vinten, explores naturalism as an approach to religion, thus continuing the path of Hume or Freud. Its originality lies in not taking naturalism for granted, rather seeing it under the critical light of Wittgenstein." --Sofia Miguens, Professor of Philosophy, University of Porto, Portugal "The editor and contributors are to be congratulated on putting together a volume with the capacity to stimulate further methodological debate in the philosophical and scientific study of religion." --Religious Studies "This volume is to be commended for trying to create a space for dialogue between Wittgenstein and the cognitive science of religion." --The Heythrop Journal