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Sympathetic Magic: A Psychological Enquiry

Peters, Frederic

Journal of cognition and culture, 2023-11, Vol.23 (5), p.522-570 [Revista revisada por pares]

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Sympathetic Magic: A Psychological Enquiry
Autor: Peters, Frederic
Es parte de: Journal of cognition and culture, 2023-11, Vol.23 (5), p.522-570
Descripción: Abstract Sympathetic magic features strongly in virtually all religious traditions and in folk customs generally. Scholars agree that It is based on the association of ideas perceived as external, mind-independent causal realities, as connections mediating causal influence. Moreover, religious folk believe that this mediation involves forms of supernatural agency. From a psychological perspective, the key question revolves around the principles by which the cognitive system deems some of its content to reference the external world and other content to constitute internal mental forms of activity like thoughts, feelings and attitudes. The paper proposes that the critical factor has to do with the balance between two distinctly different kinds of cognitive content: representations of things (mentation arising in the form of something other than itself), as distinct from registrations referencing the intrinsic phenomenal properties of the mental state itself. The balance between these two determines whether content is perceived as external worldly event or a form of internal mental content.
Editor: Leiden | Boston: Brill
Idioma: Inglés

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