No. 60 (2021): January - June
Filosofía en el espacio público

Cognitive Bubbles: Towards a Logic of Fundamentalism

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  • Germán Ulises Bula,
  • María Clara Garavito,
  • Sebastián Gonzalez
Germán Ulises Bula
Universidad de la Salle
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Sebastián Gonzalez
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DOI: https://doi.org/10.21555/top.v0i60.1187

Published 2020-10-27

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Bula, G. U., Garavito, M. C., & Gonzalez, S. (2020). Cognitive Bubbles: Towards a Logic of Fundamentalism. Tópicos, Revista De Filosofía, (60), 413–436. https://doi.org/10.21555/top.v0i60.1187
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Abstract

This paper examines fundamentalist cognition from a formal perspective with the aim of showing that such a perspective has explanatory power. Formal traits in fundamentalist thought are shown to turn up consistently in different fundamentalist groups and regarding different issues, and to be related to fundamentalist groups’ dynamics, theology, and political organization. Analysis of fundamentalist cognition also suggests that the epistemological stance of strong relativism in the public sphere may be conducive to fundamentalism.

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