Jacob Klapwijk

Purpose in the Living World?

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Produktbeschreibung

Jacob Klapwijk offers the theory of emergent evolution as a way of bridging the gap between creationism and evolutionary science.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Cambridge University Press
• Seitenzahl: 322
• Erscheinungstermin: 4. Dezember 2008
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 216mm x 140mm x 17mm
• Gewicht: 407g
• ISBN-13: 9780521729437
• ISBN-10: 0521729432
• Artikelnr.: 24706018

Autorenporträt

Jacob Klapwijk is Professor Emeritus of the Department of Philosophy, Free University, Amsterdam. He is an expert on the philosophy of history, and in recent years also involved in the creation-evolution debate. He is the author of Purpose in the Living World? Creation and Emergent Evolution (2009).

Inhaltsangabe

Preface
Introduction
1. Does life on Earth have a purpose?
2. Creationism, intelligent design, and Augustine's idea of time
3. Darwin, neo-Darwinism and the naturalistic continuity claim
4. Miller's pre-biotic broth and the premises of evolutionism
5. A cold shudder along Darwin's back
6. The emergence theory of Morgan and Alexander
7. Luctor et emergo: what is emergent evolution?
8. Towards a general theory of emergent evolution
9. Hominization and the philosophy of mind
10. Augustinian faith and evolutionary science
11. The organism is a whole. The world is a habitat
12. The slumbering temptation of essentialism
13. Questions surrounding the emergence process
14. Enkapsis in nature. Is there an omega point?
Bibliography
Index.