Science and Humanity: A Humane Philosophy of Science and Religion 1st Edition Andrew Steane

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• ISBN-10 ‏ : ‎ 0198824580
• ISBN-13 ‏ : ‎ 978-0198824589
• Author(s): Andrew Steane

Andrew Steane reconfigures the public understanding of science, by drawing on a deep knowledge of physics and by bringing in mainstream philosophy of science. Science is a beautiful, multi-lingual network of ideas; it is not a ladder in which ideas at one level make those at another level redundant. In view of this, we can judge that the natural world is not so much a machine as a meeting-place. In particular, people can only be correctly understood by meeting with them at the level of their entire personhood, in a reciprocal, respectful engagement as one person to another. Steane shows that Darwinian evolution does not overturn this but rather is the process whereby such truths came to be discovered and expressed in the world. From here the argument moves towards other aspects of human life. Our sense of value requires from us a response which is not altogether the same as following logical argument. This points us towards what religion in its good forms can express. A reply to a major argument of David Hume, and a related one of Richard Dawkins, is given. The book finishes with some brief chapters setting religion in the context of all human capacities, and showing, in fresh language, what theistic religious response is, or can be, in the modern world.

Table contents:

1 Introduction
Part I: Science and Philosophy (Finding Room to Breathe)
2 Light
3 The Structure of Science, Part 1
3.1 A Case Study: Digital Computing
3.2 Getting the Problem in View
3.3 Symmetry in Physics
3.3.1 Avoiding an Overstatement
3.4 Thermodynamics
4 The Structure of Science, Part 2
4.1 The Embodiment Principle
4.2 Biology
4.2.1 The Evolutionary Development of the Brain
4.3 The Role of Uncontrolled Change
5 Logic and Knowledge: The Babel Fallacy
6 Reflection
7 Purpose and Cause
8 Darwinian Evolution
9 The Tree
Part II: Value and Meaning
10 What Science Can and Cannot Do
11 What Must Be Embraced, Not Derived
11.1 A Philosophical Investigation
11.2 Reason and Faith
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 III: Breathing
18 Silence
19 The Human Community
20 Encounter
21 The Human Being
22 Witnessed to
Appendix: Boyle’s Law
Notes
Bibliography
Index

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