Anders Lisdorf
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| Gender | Male |
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| Occupation | PhD student |
| Location | Copenhagen, Denmark |
| Introduction | I am studying the implcations of cognitive science for understanding religion. My main interest is in how to understand empirical highlevel phenomena like culture as emergent on properties of individual agents most noteably cognitive constraints and dispositions. I am educated in history of religions with specialisation in ancient Roman religion, and am currently working on my PhD dissertation on divination in the Roman Republic. In this dissertation I try to single out factors that contribute to making divination so widespread in the Roman Republic. Some of these factors obviously are cognitive. This is why I have done some research about the cognitive basis of divination including psychological experimental work. Other factors are not cognitive such as the social organisation and historical contingencies. All of these factors are integrated into an explanation by the use of epidemiological models. |
| Interests | Culture, Cognition, Roman Religion, History, Epidemiology, Science |