Wild Experiment: Feeling Science and Secularism after Darwin Schaefer Donovan O.
Wild Experiment: Feeling Science and Secularism after Darwin Schaefer Donovan O. In Wild Experiment, Donovan O. Drawing on science studies, philosophy, affect theory, secularism studies, psychology,…
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Wild Experiment: Feeling Science and Secularism after Darwin Schaefer Donovan O.
In Wild Experiment, Donovan O. 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. Schaefer challenges the conventional wisdom that feeling and thinking are separate.
Along the way, Schaefer reappraises a range of related issues, from secular architecture at Oxford to American eugenics to contemporary climate denialism. 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. These case studies locate the intersection of thinking and feeling in the way scientific rationality balances excited discovery with anxious scrutiny, the fascination