Religion and Science

by Russell, Bertrand; Ruse, Michael

• ISBN13: 9780195115512
• ISBN10: 0195115511
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 1997-05-29
• Publisher: Oxford University Press

Summary

"New truth is often uncomfortable," Bertrand Russell wrote, "but it is the most important achievement of our species." In "Religion and Science" (1961), his popular polemic against religious dogma, he covers the ground from demonology to quantum physics, yet concedes that science cannot touch the profound feelings of personal religious experience.

Author Biography

The late Bertrand Russell, English philosopher and mathematician, was a Fellow of Trinity College, Cambridge University, where he taught for many years. He also lectured widely in the United States. Winner of the 1950 Nobel Prize for Literature, he is the author of many books including the influential Principia Mathematica, with Alfred North Whitehead, and The Autobiography of Bertrand Russell 1872-1967, published in three volumes.
Michael Ruse is Professor of Philosophy and Zoology at the University of Guelph, Ontario. He is the author of many books, including Evolutionary Naturalism and The Darwinian Paradigm.

Table of Contents

INTRODUCTION
MICHAEL RUSE
I. GROUND OF CONFLICT	7	(12)
II. THE COPERNICAN REVOLUTION	19	(30)
III. EVOLUTION	49	(33)
IV. DEMONOLOGY AND MEDICINE	82	(28)
V. SOUL AND BODY	110	(34)
VI. DETERMINISM	144	(27)
VII. MYSTICISM	171	(19)
VIII. COSMIC PURPOSE	190	(33)
IX. SCIENCE OF ETHICS	223	(21)
X. CONCLUSION	244	(9)
INDEX	253