Science & Religion

by Rolston, Holmes, III

• ISBN13: 9781599470993
• ISBN10: 1599470993
• Edition: 1st
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 2006-08-01
• Publisher: Templeton Foundation Pr

Summary

This acclaimed book is back in print with a new introduction by its award-winning author. An interdisciplinary approach to the central themes of scientific and religious thought, it uses the scientific method of inquiry to distill key issues from science. These issues are then integrated in a study that highlights crucial issues in a logical and historical analysis that begins with matter and moves through life, mind, culture, history, and spirit.

Author Biography

Holmes Rolston III is a world-renowned philosopher, widely recognized as the father of environmental ethics as a modern academic discipline

Table of Contents

Preface	vii
Introduction to the 2006 Edition. Human Uniqueness and Human Responsibility: Science and Religion in a New Millennium	xi
An Open Future	xii
Matter, Energy, Information	xiv
Genetics: Past, Present, and Future	xviii
Human Uniqueness: Brain, Mind, Culture	xxiv
Mind Knowing Nature: Realism and Social Construction	xxxi
Science and Conscience	xxxv
Historical and Cruciform Nature: Life Persisting in Perishing	xxxix
Methods in Scientific and Religious Inquiry	1	(32)
Theories, Creeds, and Experience	1	(7)
Models, Patterns, Paradigms	8	(8)
Objectivity and Involvement	16	(6)
Scientific and Religious Logic	22	(11)
Matter: Religion and the Physical Sciences	33	(48)
Newtonian Mechanism	34	(7)
Quantum Mechanics and Indeterminacy	41	(13)
Relativity and Matter-Energy	54	(11)
Microphysical and Astrophysical Nature	65	(16)
Life: Religion and the Biological Sciences	81	(70)
Biochemistry and the Secret of Life	82	(8)
Evolution and the Secret of Life	90	(34)
The Cybernetics of Life	124	(9)
The Life Struggle	133	(18)
Mind: Religion and the Psychological Sciences	151	(47)
The Possibility of a Human Science	151	(8)
Religion and Freudian Psychoanalysis	159	(11)
Religion and Behavioral Science	170	(13)
Religion and Humanistic Psychologies	183	(15)
Culture: Religion and the Social Sciences	198	(40)
Society and the Individual: Models, Laws, Causes	200	(10)
Interpretive Social Science	210	(9)
Religion as a Social Projection	219	(7)
Values in Social Science	226	(12)
Nature and History	238	(59)
Nature after Science	238	(9)
Hard Naturalism	247	(6)
Soft Naturalism	253	(5)
Eastern Perspectives	258	(11)
The Dimension of History	269	(17)
Suffering	286	(11)
Nature, History, and God	297	(52)
Nature and Supernature	298	(8)
Scientific-Existentialist Theism	306	(9)
Process Theism	315	(7)
Transscientific Theism	322	(13)
Insight in Science and Religion: Doing the Truth	335	(14)
Index	349