Holmes Rolston

Science & Religion

A Critical Survey

• Broschiertes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

"Rolston's presentation of the methods of science, along with up-to-date summaries of the main achievements of the various sciences, is commendable for its clarity and critical acumen."

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Templeton Press
• Seitenzahl: 408
• Erscheinungstermin: 1. August 2006
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 232mm x 153mm x 30mm
• Gewicht: 617g
• ISBN-13: 9781599470993
• ISBN-10: 1599470993
• Artikelnr.: 22353583

Autorenporträt

Holmes Rolston III is a world-renowned philosopher, widely recognized as the father of environmental ethics as a modern academic discipline. The winner of the Templeton Prize in 2003 and the Mendel Medal in 2005, he currently holds the position of University Distinguished Professor of Philosophy, Colorado State University. Rolston is associate editor of the journal Environmental Ethics and serves on the editorial boards of a number of other journals. He is the author of six books that have won acclaim in both academic journals and the mainstream press.

Inhaltsangabe

Preface / vii
Introduction to the 2006 Edition. Human Uniqueness and Human
Responsibility: Science and Religion in a New Millennium / xi
An Open Future / xii
Matter, Energy, Information / xiv
Genetics: Past, Present, and Future / xviii
Human Uniqueness: Brain, Mind, Culture / xxiv
Mind Knowing Nature: Realism and Social Construction / xxxi
Science and Conscience / xxxv
Historical and Cruciform Nature: Life Persisting in Perishing / xxxix
Chapter 1. Methods in Scientific and Religious Inquiry / 1
Theories, Creeds, and Experience / 1
Models, Patterns, Paradigms / 8
Objectivity and Involvement / 16
Scientific and Religious Logic / 22
Chapter 2. Matter: Religion and the Physical Sciences / 33
Newtonian Mechanism / 34
Quantum Mechanics and Indeterminacy / 41
Relativity and Matter-Energy / 54
Microphysical and Astrophysical Nature / 65
Chapter 3. Life: Religion and the Biological Sciences / 81
Biochemistry and the Secret of Life / 82
Evolution and the Secret of Life / 90
The Cybernetics of Life / 124
The Life Struggle / 133
Chapter 4. Mind: Religion and the Psychological Sciences / 151
The Possibility of a Human Science / 151
Religion and Freudian Psychoanalysis / 159
Religion and Behavioral Science 170
Religion and Humanistic Psychologies / 183
Chapter 5. Culture: Religion and the Social Sciences / 198
Society and the Individual: Models, Laws, Causes / 200
Interpretive Social Science / 210
Religion as a Social Projection / 219
Values in Social Science / 226
Chapter 6. Nature and History / 238
Nature after Science / 238
Hard Naturalism / 247
Soft Naturalism / 253
Eastern Perspectives / 258
The Dimension of History / 269
Suffering / 286
Chapter 7. Nature, History, and God / 297
Nature and Supernature / 298
Scientific-Existentialist Theism / 306
Process Theism / 315
Transscientific Theism / 322
Insight in Science and Religion: Doing the Truth / 335
Index / 349