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9780742534049

Agents Under Fire Materialism and the Rationality of Science

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  • ISBN13:

    9780742534049

  • ISBN10:

    0742534049

  • Format: Hardcover
  • Copyright: 2004-07-01
  • Publisher: Rowman & Littlefield Publishers
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Summary

In Agents Under Fire, Menuge defends a robust notion of agency and intentionaility against eliminative and naturalistic alternatives, showing the interconnections between the philosophy of mind, theology, and Intelligent Design.

Author Biography

Angus Menuge is associate professor of philosophy and director of the Cranach Institute at Concordia University Wisconsin.

Table of Contents

List of Illustrations ix
Foreword by Michael Ruse xi
Preface xiii
Chapter 1 Skyhooks and Cranes: The Challenge of Reductionism 1(26)
Chapter 2 Strong Agent Reductionism: Materialism and the Rationality of Science 27(36)
Chapter 3 Weak Agent Reductionism: Science and the Rationality of Materialism 63(32)
Chapter 4 Bait and Switch: Indirectness and Biological Unity 95(32)
Chapter 5 The Alchemy of the Mind: Indirectness and Psychological Unity 127(22)
Chapter 6 Beyond Skinnerian Creatures: A Defense of the Lewis-Plantinga Argument against Evolutionary Naturalism 149(24)
Chapter 7 Intentionality, Information, and Displacement: The Legitimacy of Design 173(20)
Chapter 8 Science and Christianity: Dogmatism and Dialogue 193(28)
Index 221(12)
About the Author 233

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