Wild experiment : feeling science and secularism after Darwin / Donovan O. Schaefer.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Schaefer, Donovan O., 1981- author.

Series:

e-Duke books scholarly collection

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Religion and science.

Secularism.

Atheism.

Knowledge, Theory of.

Emotions (Philosophy).

Science--Social aspects.

Science.

Genre:

Electronic books.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (317 pages) : illustrations.

Place of Publication:

Durham : Duke University Press, 2022.

System Details:

Mode of Access: World Wide Web.

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Summary:

"Wild Experiment argues that feeling and thinking are not separate. Drawing on a range of fields including science studies, philosophy, affect theory, secularism studies, psychology, and the post-critical turn in literary studies, it reconceptualizes thinking as not just connected to feeling, but defined by it. This has implications for how we understand domains often imagined to be beyond emotion, including science, secularism, and atheism. The first part of the book builds an interdisciplinary background for what Donovan O. Schaefer calls "cogency theory"-studies of how thinking is determined by feeling. The second part turns to the history of the reception of evolutionary biology to explore three case studies of scientific secularism. Reconsidering the early Darwinian controversies, the Scopes Trial, and the New Atheist movement of the 2000s, part two argues that we can't understand scientific secularism without mapping how it feels. The epilogue considers how relationships between emotion, science, and secularism shape contemporary climate denialism"-- Provided by publisher.

Contents:

The longing to believe : philosophers on conspiracy theory and the sense of science

Sensualized epistemology : affect theory on how reason gets racialized

Science as an intoxication : secularism studies on enchantment and critique

Feeling is believing : perspectives on cogency theory from neuroscience and experimental psychology

Only better beasts : Darwin, Huxley, and the sense of science

The secular circus : science and racialized reason in the Scopes Trial

New atheism as secular conspiracy theory.

Notes:

Description based on print version record.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Other Format:

Print version: Schaefer, Donovan O., 1981- Wild experiment.

ISBN:

9781478022879

1478022876

Access Restriction:

Restricted for use by site license.