Michael Ruse

Science and Spirituality

• Broschiertes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

Michael Ruse offers a new analysis of the often troubled relationship between science and religion.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Cambridge University Press
• Seitenzahl: 274
• Erscheinungstermin: 19. Juni 2014
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 229mm x 152mm x 16mm
• Gewicht: 449g
• ISBN-13: 9781107681811
• ISBN-10: 1107681812
• Artikelnr.: 40563409

Autorenporträt

Michael Ruse is the Lucyle T. Werkmeister Professor of Philosophy at Florida State University.As a prominent philosopher of science, he is well known for his work on the relationship between science and religion, the creation-evolution controversy and the demarcation problem within science. He has published over 25 books: most recently, Reflections on the Origin of Species, with David Reznick (Princeton UP, 2008); Science and Spirituality: Making Room for Faith in the Age of Science (Cambridge UP, 2010); and Atheism: What Everyone Needs to Know (Oxford UP, 2015).

Inhaltsangabe

Introduction
1. The world as an organism
2. The world as a machine
3. Organisms as machines
4. Thinking machines
5. Unasked questions, unsolved problems
6. Organicism
7. God
8. Morality, souls, eternity, mystery
Conclusion.

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Introduction; 1. The world as an organism; 2. The world as a machine; 3. Organisms as machines; 4. Thinking machines; 5. Unasked questions, unsolved problems; 6. Organicism; 7. God; 8. Morality, souls, eternity, mystery; Conclusion.

Rezensionen

'Michael Ruse has written an insightful and accessible book belonging to the genre of rapprochements between science and religion. Ruse is not only a leading philosopher of science but also an exemplary popular writer whose style is sophisticated and lucid, but not dry.' Science and Education