Saturday, 9:00 - 11:00
M30-107
Marriott Marquis – International A
Reductionism in the Cognitive Science of Religion
Laura Weed, Against Reductivism in Causation
Paul Cassell, Ritual, Religious Experience, and Adaptive Social Organization
Andrew Aghapour, Biocognitive Straw Men and Sui Generis Defensives: Science, Religion, and the Rhetoric of Reductionism
Saturday, 1:00 – 3:30
A30-230
Marriott Marquis – Marquis Ballroom A
Fellow Primates: A Conversation with Frans de Waal on Cognition, Animals, and Religion
Presiding: Ann Taves
Panelists: Kimberly Patton, Armin Geertz, Frans de Waal
Responding: Gabriel Levy, Aaron Gross
Monday, 1:00 – 3:30
A1-231
Marriott Marquis – L 508
Topics in the Cognitive Science of Religion
Sherry Morton, The Brain on Ritual: The Embodied Logic of Tantric Deity Worship
Holly Phillips, Prayer and Attention
Nathaniel Barrett, Towards and Empirical Psychology of Religious Experience: The Unrealized Promise of William James’ Radical Empiricism
Business Meeting to Follow
