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Wild Experiment: Feeling Science and Secularism After Darwin

by Donovan O. Schaefer

  • Hardback
  • Publisher: Duke University Press
  • 15.2 x 22.9 x 2 cm

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In Wild Experiment, Donovan O. Schaefer challenges the conventional wisdom that feeling and thinking are separate. Drawing on science studies, philosophy, affect theory, secularism studies, psychology, and contemporary literary criticism, Schaefer reconceptualizes rationality as defined by affective processes at every level. He introduces the model of "cogency theory" to reconsider the relationship between evolutionary biology and secularism, examining mid-nineteenth-century Darwinian controversies, the 1925 Scopes Trial, and the New Atheist movement of the 2000s. Along the way, Schaefer reappraises a range of related issues, from secular architecture at Oxford to American eugenics to contemporary climate denialism. These case studies locate the intersection of thinking and feeling in the way scientific rationality balances excited discovery with anxious scrutiny, in the fascination of conspiracy theories, and in how racist feelings assume the mantle of rational objectivity. The fact that cognition is felt, Schaefer demonstrates, is both why science succeeds and why it fails. He concludes that science, secularism, atheism, and reason itself are not separate from feeling but comprehensively defined by it.
Wild Experiment: Feeling Science and Secularism After Darwin and Wild Experiment: Feeling Science and Secularism After Darwin
Wild Experiment: Feeling Science and Secularism After DarwinWild Experiment: Feeling Science and Secularism After Darwin

  • Author

    Donovan O. Schaefer

  • Book Format

    Hardcover

  • Publisher

    Duke University Press

  • Published

    June 2022

  • Weight

    609g

  • Dimensions

    15.2 x 22.9 x 2 cm

  • ISBN

    9781478015628

  • ISBN-10

    1478015624

  • Eden Code

    5593023

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