Science and Humanity A Humane Philosophy of Science and Religion

by Steane, Andrew

• ISBN13: 9780191863370
• ISBN10: 0191863378
• Format: eBook
• Copyright: 2018-07-18
• Publisher: Oxford University Press

Author Biography

Andrew Steane, Full Professor, Department of Physics, University of Oxford, UK

Andrew Steane is a Professor of Physics at Oxford University and a Fellow of Exeter College, Oxford. His research includes experimental and theoretical Quantum Computing, atomic physics, and Special Relativity. He co-discovered quantum error correction. His research group, co-led by David Lucas, has pioneered the ion trap approach to quantum computing. He is the author of two undergraduate physics textbooks, and of Faithful to Science: the role of science in religion (OUP 2014). He was awarded the Maxwell Medal and Prize of the Institute of Physics (2000). He is married to Emma Steane; they have three children.

Table of Contents

1. Introduction
Part I: Science and philosophy
2. Light
3. The structure of science, part 1
4. The structure of science, part 2
5. Logic and knowledge: the Babel fallacy
6. Reflection
7. Purpose and casue
8. Darwinian evolution
9. The tree
10. What science can and cannot do
11. What must be embraced, not derived
12. Religious language
13. The Unframeable Picture
14. A farewell to Hume
15. Drawing threads together
16. Extraterrestrial life
17. Does the universe suggest design, purpose, goodness or concern?
Part II: Breathing
18. Silence
19. The human community
20. Encounter
21. The human being
22. Witnessed to