Henry Luce Professor of Individual and Collective Memory
Academic background
Education
University of Paris
St John's College, Cambridge
Academic work
Institutions
Washington University in St. Louis
Notable works
Religion Explained
Website
pascalboyer.net
Pascal Robert Boyer is an American cognitive anthropologist and evolutionary psychologist of French origin, mostly known for his work in the cognitive science of religion. He taught at the University of Cambridge for eight years, before taking up the position of Henry Luce Professor of Individual and Collective Memory at Washington University in St. Louis, where he teaches classes on evolutionary psychology and anthropology.[1] He was a Guggenheim Fellow and a visiting professor at the University of California, Santa Barbara and the University of Lyon, France.[2] He studied philosophy and anthropology at University of Paris and Cambridge, with Jack Goody, working on memory constraints on the transmission of oral literature.[3] Boyer is a Member of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences.
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Pascal Robert Boyer is an American cognitive anthropologist and evolutionary psychologist of French origin, mostly known for his work in the cognitive...
anthropologist PascalBoyer, in which the author discusses the evolutionary psychology of religion and evolutionary origin of religions. Boyer describes the...
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Boyer (French pronunciation: [bwaje]) is a French surname. In rarer cases, it can be a corruption or deliberate alteration of other names. Boyer is found...
just technical). There are however dissenting views; scholars such as PascalBoyer argue that defining tradition and developing theories about it are important...
Cognitive anthropologist PascalBoyer argued that minimally counterintuitive concepts (MCI) i.e., concepts that violate a few ontological expectations...
ISBN 0-19-506901-3. Boyer, Pascal. "Functional Origins of Religious concepts". Archived from the original on 2009-10-10. Retrieved 2009-12-19. Boyer, Pascal (2001)...
Thomas Lawson and Robert McCauley, Naturalness of Religious Ideas by PascalBoyer, Inside the Cult and Arguments and Icons by Harvey Whitehouse, and Guthrie's...
University Press, 1992 Boyer, Pascal. The Naturalness of Religious Ideas. University of California Press, 1994 Boyer, Pascal. Religion Explained: The...
evolutionary psychology and anthropology, including Scott Atran, Dan Sperber, PascalBoyer, John Tooby and others, argue the possibility of incompatibility between...
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326_784. PMID 19892955. Boyer, Pascal (2001). Religion Explained. New York: Basic Books. pp. 142–243. ISBN 978-0465006960. boyer modern soap opera. du Castel...
supernormal stimuli and they may generate peak shifts in responding. PascalBoyer has suggested that music is a superstimulus targeting human affinity...
Miller, Richard Dawkins, Steven Weinberg, Colin McGinn, Denys Turner, PascalBoyer and Daniel Dennett. The series also includes many quotations from the...
outcomes. Influential cognitive and anthropological scientists such as PascalBoyer and Nicholas Humphrey have endorsed Singh's approach, although other...
Religion Explained: The Evolutionary Origins of Religious Thought, PascalBoyer, Basic Books (2001). H. L. Mencken, "Where is the Graveyard of Dead Gods...
1007/978-3-319-16999-6_3011-1. Retrieved 28 March 2024. Religion Explained, by PascalBoyer Henig, Robin Marantz (Mar 4, 2007). "Darwin's God (page 3)". The Times...
Free Pascal Compiler (FPC) is a compiler for the closely related programming-language dialects Pascal and Object Pascal. It is free software released under...
at through the lens of the function and processing of the human mind. PascalBoyer suggests that, for the longest period of time, the brain was thought...
feeling of insecurity and then proposing themselves as precautions. PascalBoyer and Pierre Liénard propose that the shape rituals take results from goal...
Knowledge: An Evolutionary Approach, 1972, Rev. ed., 1979, ISBN 0-19-875024-2 PascalBoyer, Religion Explained: The Evolutionary Origins of Religious Thought, New...
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In his book Religion Explained, Boyer shows that there is no simple explanation for religious consciousness. Boyer is mainly concerned with explaining...
centuries, and there is no evidence of increased anxiety. Psychologist PascalBoyer says a cognitive approach can account for the transmission of religious...
is a list of books in the Sweet Valley High series, created by Francine Pascal. There are 181 books in total. Boesky, Amy. "The Ghost Writes Back". Kenyon...
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