Science & religion : a critical survey / / Holmes Rolston III
| Science & religion : a critical survey / / Holmes Rolston III |
| Autore | Rolston Holmes <1932-2025.> |
| Edizione | [1st ed.] |
| Pubbl/distr/stampa | Philadelphia, : Templeton Foundation Press, 2006 |
| Descrizione fisica | 1 online resource (406 p.) |
| Disciplina | 501 |
| Soggetto topico |
Science - Philosophy
Religion and science |
| ISBN |
1-283-43690-6
9786613436900 1-59947-406-9 |
| Formato | Materiale a stampa |
| Livello bibliografico | Monografia |
| Lingua di pubblicazione | eng |
| Nota di contenuto |
Cover -- Half Title Page -- Title Page -- Copyright -- Contents -- Preface -- Introduction to the 2006 Edition. Human Uniqueness and Human Responsibility: Science and Religion in a New Millennium -- 1. An Open Future -- 2. Matter, Energy, Information -- 3. Genetics: Past, Present, and Future -- 4. Human Uniqueness: Brain, Mind, Culture -- 5. Mind Knowing Nature: Realism and Social Construction -- 6. Science and Conscience -- 7. Historical and Cruciform Nature: Life Persisting in Perishing -- Chapter 1: Methods in Scientific and Religious Inquiry -- 1. Theories, Creeds, and Experience -- 2. Models, Patterns, Paradigms -- 3. Objectivity and Involvement -- 4. Scientific and Religious Logic -- Chapter 2: Matter: Religion and the Physical Sciences -- 1. Newtonian Mechanism -- 2. Quantum Mechanics and Indeterminacy -- 3. Relativity and Matter-Energy -- 4. Microphysical and Astrophysical Nature -- Chapter 3: Life: Religion and the Biological Sciences -- 1. Biochemistry and the Secret of Life -- 2. Evolution and the Secret of Life -- 3. The Cybernetics of Life -- 4. The Life Struggle -- Chapter 4: Mind: Religion and the Psychological Sciences -- 1. The Possibility of a Human Science -- 2. Religion and Freudian Psychoanalysis -- 3. Religion and Behavioral Science -- 4. Religion and Humanistic Psychologies -- Chapter 5: Culture: Religion and the Social Sciences -- 1. Society and the Individual: Models, Laws, Causes -- 2. Interpretive Social Science -- 3. Religion as a Social Projection -- 4. Values in Social Science -- Chapter 6: Nature and History -- 1. Nature after Science -- 2. Hard Naturalism -- 3. Soft Naturalism -- 4. Eastern Perspectives -- 5. The Dimension of History -- 6. Suffering -- Chapter 7: Nature, History, and God -- 1. Nature and Supernature -- 2. Scientific-Existentialist Theism -- 3. Process Theism -- 4. Transscientific Theism.
5. Insight in Science and Religion: Doing the Truth -- Index. |
| Altri titoli varianti | Science and religion |
| Record Nr. | UNINA-9910970360303321 |
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Three big bangs : matter-energy, life, mind / / Holmes Rolston III
| Three big bangs : matter-energy, life, mind / / Holmes Rolston III |
| Autore | Rolston Holmes <1932-2025.> |
| Pubbl/distr/stampa | New York, : Columbia University Press, 2010 |
| Descrizione fisica | 1 online resource (161 p.) |
| Disciplina | 113 |
| Soggetto topico |
Evolution
Philosophy |
| ISBN |
9786612872440
9781282872448 1282872443 9780231526845 0231526849 |
| Formato | Materiale a stampa |
| Livello bibliografico | Monografia |
| Lingua di pubblicazione | eng |
| Nota di contenuto |
Contents; Illustrations; Preface; Chapter 1. The Primordial Big Bang; Explosive Startup and Ongoing Expansion; A Singular Universe: Unfolding Order; Logical Explosion: A Theory of Everything?; A Biogenic/Anthropic Universe; Cosmic Results: Predictable and Surprising; Chapter 2. Life: Earth's Big Bang; Proactive Genetic Information and Order; Explosions: Combinatorial and Evolutionary; Biodiversity and Biocomplexity; Expanding Neuro-sentience: Felt Experience; Escalating Co-option: Serendipity; Evolutionary Headings: Surprising or Inevitable?; Chapter 3. Mind: The Human Big Bang
Theory of Mind: The Human SingularityHyperimmense Brain: Neural Explosion; Ideational Uniqueness: Cultural Explosion; Symbolic Explosion: Human Language; Mind: Predictable or Surprising?; Spirited Persons: The Ultimate Marvel; Presence with Presence; References; Index |
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| New York, : Columbia University Press, 2010 | ||
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