Science and humanity : a humane philosophy of science and religion /
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....
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Oxford, United Kingdom :
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2018.
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| Edition: | First edition. |
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Table of Contents:
- Cover; Science and Humanity: A Humane Philosophy of Science and Relition; Copyright; Dedication; Acknowledgements; Contents; Epigraph; 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 Fallacy6 Reflection; 7 Purpose and Cause; 7.1 Why Has an Anteater Got a Long, Sticky Tongue?; 7.1.1 Premature Telelogy; 7.2 Science and Intellectual Discipline; 7.3 The Multi-Layered View; 8 Darwinian Evolution; 9 The Tree; Part II: Value and Meaning; 10 What Science Can and Cannot Do; 10.1 A Brief Historical Survey; 10.2 Completeness and Cogency; 10.2.1 Cogency; 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; 14.1 Introduction.
- 14.2 The Argument from Lack of Explanatory Power14.3 An Example Witness; 14.4 Resolution: The Full Expression of Human Personhood; 14.4.1 Words, Usage, Categories; 14.4.2 Thomas Aquinas and Divine Simplicity; 14.4.3 Opening the Self, Not Just the Mind; 14.5 FourWitnesses; 14.5.1 The Gospels; 14.5.2 Bonhoeffer; 14.5.3 The Desert Fathers; 14.5.4 Soundings from R.S. Thomas; 14.6 The Refutation of the Superfluity Argument; 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 Community20 Encounter; 21 The Human Being; 22 Witnessed to; Appendix: Boyle's Law; Notes; Bibliography; Index.
