Dependencies
Evolutionary Religion is a culmination of work in many fields spanning several millennium of scientific inquiry.
We obviously depend heavily upon evolutionary theory, but we also learn from ongoing investigations in the fields of sociobiology and evolutionary psychology. We want to help people to be happy and one of the best ways to do that is to learn what made people happy in the past. Helping people requires understanding people, and these fields of study make that possible.
We base all of our work on naturalized epistemology and accept metaphysical naturalism as a given.
We try not to get tangled up in the debate between positivism, logical positivism, constructive empiricism, scientific realism, instrumentalism, critical rationalism, etc… It’s very exciting intellectually, but it’s outside our scope.