Past Minds Studies in Cognitive Historiography 1st Edition by Luther H. Martin, Jesper Sørensen ISBN 1845537416 978-1845537418

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ISBN 10: 1845537416 

ISBN 13: 978-1845537418

Author: Luther H. Martin, Jesper Sørensen

How do historians understand the minds, motivations, intentions of historical agents? What might evolutionary and cognitive theorizing contribute to this work? What is the relation between natural and cultural history? Historians have been intrigued by such questions ever since publication in 1859 of Darwin’s The Origin of Species, itself the historicization of biology. This interest reemerged in the latter part of the twentieth century among a number of biologists, philosophers and historians, reinforced by the new interdisciplinary finding of cognitive scientists about the universal capacities of and constraints upon human minds. The studies in this volume, primarily by historians of religion, continue this discussion by focusing on historical examples of ancient religions as well as on the theoretical promises and problems relevant to that study.

 

Table of contents: 

Introduction

1. Evolution, Cognition, and History

Luther H. Martin

2. Cognitive History and Cultural Epidemiology Christophe Heintz

Minds and Ancient Civilizations

3. Technology and Past Minds: The Case of Jewish Niche Construction Gabriel Levy

4. Illuminator of the Wide Earth; Unbribable Judge; Strong Weapon of the Gods: Intuitive Ontology and Divine Epithets in Assyro-Babylonian Religious Texts

Peter West

5. Connecting Cultural Stability and Experience of Landscape:

A Cognitive Approach in the Study of Tree Symbolism with Special Reference to Mesoamerica and Prehispanic Mayan Culture Christian Prager

6. No Time to Philosophize? Norwegian Oral Tradition and the Cognitive Economics of Belief Dirk Johannsen

Roman Minds

7. Prisons of the longue durée: The Circulation and Acceptance of prodigia in Roman Antiquity

Anders Lisdorf

8. What Might Cognitive Science Contribute to Our Understanding of the Roman Cult of Mithras?

Aleš Chalupa

9. Do the Multiple Initiations of Lucius in Apuleius’ Metamorphoses Falsify the Ritual Form Hypothesis?

Douglas L. Gragg

10. Religion Explained? Lucian of Samosata and the Cognitive Science of Religion

Ulrich Berner

11. Explaining Magic: Earliest Christianity as a Test Case

István Czachesz

Conclusion

12. Beneath the Surface of History?

Donald Wiebe

13. Past Minds: Present Historiography and Cognitive Science

Jesper Sørensen

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