Theological Incorrectness

[erudito]

The growth of cognitive science has been one of the major intellectual advances of the last few decades. Largely kicked off by Noam Chomsky’s rethinking of the human aptitude for language, and attracting noted popularisers (such as Steven Pinker), it has been spreading across intellectual life. That humans have finally created something that is

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[qamar]

theological incorrectness is a natural by-product of the cognitive tools in our mind-brains

Sounds a lot like Pascal Boyer's hypothesis.

Indeed

[erudito]

Given the about a dozen references to Boyer's work in the text, and the list of Pascal Boyer publications in the bibliography, there may be a reason for that :)

I did not put which scholars Slone cited for which bit, as that would have been far too tedious, I just noted that it presented the work of a wide range of scholars.