William Rand Kenan Jr. University Professor of Philosophy, Emeritus, Center for Mind, Brain, and Culture, Emory University
I have investigated the implications of the cognitive by-product view for thinking about religion and religions and their relationships to science, both cognitively and socially. That project has involved examining and contrasting the cognitive foundations of science and the cognitive foundations of religion, and that contrast has yielded a number of surprising implications.
Read MoreIn particular, I have fathomed some of the ways that the findings from the social, cognitive, and brain sciences might bear on our conceptions of knowledge, perception, learning, science, mind, and consciousness.
Read MoreA central philosophical question about the sciences concerns how they are connected to one another. I have advanced and developed a conception of cross-scientific relations in terms of explanatory pluralism in science.
Read MoreI argue that the core mission of the university is inquiry and that the projects of teaching and learning should be conceived within that framework.
Read More— Explanation and Cognition
— Theory and Psychology
— Handbook of the Philosophy of Science: Philosophy of Psychology and Cognitive Science
— Philosophical Psychology
— Philosophical Psychology
— The Natural Method: Ethics, Mind, and Self
— Creating Consilience: Integrating the Sciences and the Humanities
— Philosophy of Science
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