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Explaining Science
A Cognitive Approach
Ronald N. Giere
University of Chicago Press, 1990
"This volume presents an attempt to construct a unified cognitive theory of science in relatively short compass. It confronts the strong program in sociology of science and the positions of various postpositivist philosophers of science, developing significant alternatives to each in a reeadily comprehensible sytle. It draws loosely on recent developments in cognitive science, without burdening the argument with detailed results from that source. . . . The book is thus a provocative one. Perhaps that is a measure of its value: it will lead scholars and serious student from a number of science studies disciplines into continued and sharpened debate over fundamental questions."—Richard Burian, Isis

"The writing is delightfully clear and accessible. On balance, few books advance our subject as well."—Paul Teller, Philosophy of Science
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The Kingdom of God in Luke’s Gospel
A Cognitive Approach
Karl C. H. Leung
SBL Press, 2026
Luke’s Gospel plays a significant role in transmitting the majority of the kingdom of God sayings directly associated with Jesus. Karl C. H. Leung offers a new explanation of the semantics of the phrase from a cognitive model of polysemy and provides alternative interpretations of the kingdom teachings in Luke’s Gospel as a whole. Leung departs from the more common twentieth-century interpretation of an inaugurated eschatology in which God’s reign has arrived and will be consummated at the end of the age. Instead, he demonstrates that Jesus’s teaching on the kingdom of God exhibits the notions of gathering the eschatological Israel, restoring the ownership of the promised land to the chosen people of God, and attaining the continual expansion of God’s new world on earth in the eschatological age.
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