Wild Experiment

Wild Experiment

Feeling Science and Secularism after Darwin

Schaefer, Donovan O.

Duke University Press

06/2022

328

Dura

Inglês

9781478015628

15 a 20 dias

590

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Introduction. Cogency Theory: An Essay on Our Intellectual Affects 1
Part I. Cogency Theory
1. The Longing to Believe: Philosophers on Conspiracy Theory and the Sense of Science 33
2. Sensualized Epistemology: Affect Theory on How Reason Gets Racialized 57
3. Science as an Intoxication: Secularism Studies on Enchantment and Critique 80
4. Feeling is Believing: The Triune Brain, Mere Exposure, and Cogency 107
Part II. Feeling Science and Secularism
5. Only Better Beasts: Darwin, Huxley, and the Sense of Science 137
6. The Secular Circus: Science and Racialized Reason in the Scopes Trial 169
7. The Four Horsemen: New Atheism as Secular Conspiracy Theory 200
Epilogue. From Creationism to Climate Denialism 230
Acknowledgments 239
Notes 243
Bibliography 281
Index
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2023 Ludwik Fleck Prize Winner; 4S book awards; Society for the Social Studies of Science book awards; 2023 International Society for Science and Religion Book Prize Winner