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9 results for "Pascal Boyer"
B_5_12 — Cognitive Science of Monster Concepts: Why Humans Invent Creatures
Why do all human cultures independently generate remarkably similar monster concepts — predatory hybrids, shape-shifters, reanimated corpses, giant serpents, invisible watchers? Cognitive science offers a compelling fram
V_3_04 — Combinatorics & Counting: Pascal's Triangle to Modern Applications
Combinatorics — the mathematics of counting, arrangement, and selection — is one of the oldest and most widely applicable branches of mathematics, with roots across multiple civilizations. Pascal's triangle — the triangu
V_3_01 — Statistics & Probability: Pascal to Bayes
Probability and statistics — the mathematics of uncertainty — emerged as formal disciplines from the Pascal-Fermat correspondence (1654) on the "problem of points" (how to divide stakes in an interrupted game of chance),
C_5_01 — Cognitive Anthropology of Serpent Archetypes
This document examines the evolutionary and cognitive science explanations for why serpent beings appear in virtually every human culture. Snake Detection Theory (Isbell, 2009) proposes that primates evolved superior vis
G_4_13 — HADD and Agency Detection — Why We See Beings Everywhere
The Hyperactive Agency Detection Device (HADD) — a term coined by cognitive scientist Justin Barrett (2000) building on work by Stewart Guthrie (1993) and Pascal Boyer (2001) — refers to the proposed cognitive mechanism
G_4_04 — Cognitive Science of Religion and the Anthropology of Belief
The Cognitive Science of Religion (CSR) is an interdisciplinary field that explains religious belief and practice as natural products of evolved cognitive mechanisms rather than supernatural revelation or cultural invent
T_5_18 — Cognitive Science of Religion: How Minds Create Gods
The Cognitive Science of Religion (CSR) is an interdisciplinary field — emerging in the 1990s from cognitive psychology, evolutionary biology, anthropology, and neuroscience — that explains religious beliefs and practice
P_5_10 — Philosophy of Religion: Faith, Reason, and Mystical Experience
The philosophy of religion is the branch of philosophy that critically examines the concepts, arguments, and experiences at the heart of religious belief and practice — not from within any particular faith tradition but
V_1_12 — Chinese Mathematics History
Chinese mathematics developed independently over at least 3,000 years, producing remarkable achievements often centuries before their European counterparts. The Jiuzhang Suanshu (Nine Chapters on the Mathematical Art, co
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