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Published online by Cambridge University Press:  22 September 2009

K. Helmut Reich
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Université de Fribourg, Switzerland
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The nature of the various chapters of Part II is diverse. Chapter 6 illustrates the application of RCR, first purely formally, and then to ways of relating science and religion/theology, thereby highlighting, among other things, the symbolic meaning of the cover picture. Chapter 7 reports mainly empirical studies in the area of religion/theology. Chapter 8 endeavours to unearth use of RCR at earlier times in various subject domains (Christian doctrine, painting, psychology, poetry, literature, physics). From chapter 9 onward, considerations become yet more speculative. Each time, I attempt to apply RCR to a given issue (in psychology, education, nuclear energy, illegal use of narcotics, rehabilitation of depressed areas), and then I discuss the current state of the (public) discussion of that issue against the background of RCR desiderata, and draw some conclusions. Readers who are mainly after robust evidence for RCR will have seen what I have to offer by the end of chapter 7; they may want to go from chapter 8 or even from chapter 7 immediately to chapter 12, the conclusions. Nevertheless, I hope to have provided sufficient circumstantial evidence and argumentative plausibility in chapters 8 to 11 to make their reading worthwhile.

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Developing the Horizons of the Mind
Relational and Contextual Reasoning and the Resolution of Cognitive Conflict
, pp. 101 - 102
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Print publication year: 2002

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  • K. Helmut Reich, Université de Fribourg, Switzerland
  • Book: Developing the Horizons of the Mind
  • Online publication: 22 September 2009
  • Chapter DOI: https://doi.org/10.1017/CBO9780511489983.007
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  • K. Helmut Reich, Université de Fribourg, Switzerland
  • Book: Developing the Horizons of the Mind
  • Online publication: 22 September 2009
  • Chapter DOI: https://doi.org/10.1017/CBO9780511489983.007
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  • Overview
  • K. Helmut Reich, Université de Fribourg, Switzerland
  • Book: Developing the Horizons of the Mind
  • Online publication: 22 September 2009
  • Chapter DOI: https://doi.org/10.1017/CBO9780511489983.007
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