‘Big Gods’ book club #2: Analytic atheism and the puzzle of apologetic
(This week, cognitionandculture.net is hosting a "book club" webinar discussing Ara Norenzayan's latest book [1] with its author. This précis introduced the discussion.)
Norenzayan’s Big Gods presents an elegant account of how belief in super-knowing, powerful and morally concerned gods emerged ...
‘Big Gods’ book club #1 — Skeptical thoughts
(This week, cognitionandculture.net is hosting a "book club" webinar discussing Ara Norenzayan's latest book [1] with its author. This précis introduced the discussion.)
Be that as it may, I am tempted to read this précis as an attempt to stress the political consequences of the birth of moral ...
A précis of ‘Big Gods: How Religion Transformed Cooperation and Conflict’
Two Puzzles
The first puzzle is large-scale human cooperation. Up to about 12,000 years ago all human beings lived in relatively small bands of foragers. Today, virtually everyone, more than 99.99 percent of humanity, lives in vast, cooperative groups of mostly unrelated strangers. Total strangers ...