List of figures
Acknowledgements
Introduction
Endnotes
Chapter One
Natural Cognition
I. Knowing It All at Once
II. Transparent Knowledge
III. Cognition as Embodied and Embedded
IV. Two Types of Natural Actions
V. Two (Parallel) Types of Natural Cognition
Endnotes
Chapter Two
Maturational Naturalness
I. Stick Close to Your Desks
II. Persisting Illusions
III. Mental Modules
IV. Massive Modularity
V. The Watergate Questions for Babies
VI. Maturational Naturalness Redux
VII. Ever Mindful
Endnotes
Chapter Three
Unnatural Science
I. The Boxing Day Disaster
II. Clarification #1:
III. Material and Abstract Tools, or Technology Is (Still) Not Science
IV. Clarification #2:
V. The Cognitively Natural Dimensions of Science – A Penchant for Theorizing and Sensitivity to the Importance of Evidence
VI. Science’s Cognitively Unnatural Products
VII. Science’s Cognitively Unnatural Processes: Discerning, Collecting, Recording, Generating, Analyzing, and Assessing Evidence
VIII. Science’s Cognitively Unnatural Processes (continued): Fallible Heuristics, Persisting Deliverances, Confirmation Bias, and Motivated Perception
IX. Coda: Social Science
Endnotes
Chapter Four
Natural Religion
I. The Importance of Being “Ernest”
II. Religion and Natural History
III. Religions as Rube Goldberg Devices
IV. Religion’s Cognitively Natural Products
V. Religion’s Cognitively Natural Processes
VI. Theory of Mind and Myth
VII. Theory of Mind and Ritual
VIII. Theory of Mind and Theological Incorrectness
Endnotes
Chapter Five
Surprising Consequences
I. Traditional Comparisons: Turf Wars or Peace at a Price Too High
II. Traditional Comparisons of Science and Religion Are Cognitively Misbegotten
III. Theological Incorrectness Is Inevitable
IV. Science Poses No Threat to the Persistence of Religion
V. Relevant Disabilities Will Render Religion Baffling
VI. Science is Inherently Social
VII. Science Depends More Fundamentally on Institutional Support Than Religion Does
VIII. Science’s Continued Existence is Fragile
Endnotes
References