Author : VV.,Agazzi
Publisher : FrancoAngeli
Page : 224 pages
File Size : 52,7 Mb
Release : 2014
Category : Science
ISBN : 9788891709240
Science, metaphysics, religion
VV.,Agazzi
Science Metaphysics Religion
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Metaphysics Reclaimed
Joseph Schrock
Author : Joseph Schrock
Publisher : Dog Ear Publishing
Page : 278 pages
File Size : 41,8 Mb
Release : 2009-04
Category : Metaphysics
ISBN : 9781598589771
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Discusses the general nature of philosophy and its values, logic, mathematics, physics, a general approach to ontology, epistemology (the nature - and limits - of human knowledge), an outlook on cosmology, human and animal psychology, human ethics, and the divine reality.
Physics and Metaphysics
Jennifer Trusted
Author : Jennifer Trusted
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 223 pages
File Size : 42,7 Mb
Release : 2003-09-01
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 9781134929719
Physics and Metaphysics by Jennifer Trusted Pdf
Jennifer Trusted's new book argues that metaphysical beliefs are essential for scientific inquiry. The theories, presuppositions and beliefs that neither science nor everyday experience can justify are the realm of metaphysics, literally `beyond physics'. These basic beliefs form a framework for our activities and can be discovered in science, common sense and religion. By examining the history of science from the eleventh century to the present, this book shows how religious and mystical beliefs, as well as philosophical speculation have had a considerable role in motivating scientists and inspiring scientific inquiry. Physics and Metaphysics presupposes no technical knowledge of either philosophy or science. It is an ideal introduction to science and the important forces that have shaped its history and ideas.
Science and Faith within Reason
Jaume Navarro
Author : Jaume Navarro
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 254 pages
File Size : 47,7 Mb
Release : 2016-04-01
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9781317059103
Science and Faith within Reason by Jaume Navarro Pdf
Scientists, historians, philosophers and theologians often engage in debates on the limitations and mutual interactions of their respective fields of study. Serious discussions are often overshadowed by the mass-produced popular and semi-popular literature on science and religion, as well as by the political agendas of many of the actors in these debates. For some, reducing religion and science to forms of social discourse is a possible way out from epistemological overlapping between them; yet is there room for religious faith only when science dissolves into one form of social discourse? The religion thus rescued would have neither rational legitimisation nor metaphysical validity, but if both scientific and religious theories try to make absolute claims on all possible aspects of reality then conflict between them seems almost inevitable. In this book leading authors in the field of science and religion, including William Carroll, Steve Fuller, Karl Giberson and Roger Trigg, highlight the oft-neglected and profound philosophical foundations that underlie some of the most frequent questions at the boundary between science and religion: the reality of knowledge, and the notions of creation, life and design. In tune with Mariano Artigas’s work, the authors emphasise that these are neither religious nor scientific but serious philosophical questions.
Beyond Matter
Roger Trigg
Author : Roger Trigg
Publisher : Templeton Press
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 53,5 Mb
Release : 2017-03-13
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 159947512X
Beyond Matter by Roger Trigg Pdf
Does science have all the answers? Can it even deal with abstract reasoning beyond the world we experience? How can we ensure that the physical world is sufficiently ordered to be intelligible to humans? How can mathematics, a product of human minds, unlock the secrets of the physical universe? Should all such questions be considered inadmissible if science cannot settle them? Metaphysics has traditionally been understood as reasoning beyond the reach of science, sometimes even claiming realities beyond its grasp. Because of this, metaphysics is often contemptuously dismissed by scientists and philosophers who wish to remain within the bounds of what can be scientifically proven. Yet scientists at the frontiers of physics unwittingly engage in metaphysics, as they are now happy to contemplate whole universes that are, in principle, beyond human reach. Roger Trigg challenges those who deny that science needs philosophical assumptions. Trigg claims that the foundations of science themselves have to lie beyond science. It takes reasoning apart from experience to discover what is not yet known and this metaphysical reasoning to imagine realities beyond what can be accessed. “In Beyond Matter, Roger Trigg advances a powerful, persuasive, fair-minded argument that the sciences require a philosophical, metaphysical foundation. This is a brilliant book for newcomers to the philosophy of science and experts alike.” —Charles Taliaferro, professor of philosophy, St. Olaf College
The Methods of Science and Religion
Tiddy Smith
Author : Tiddy Smith
Publisher : Rowman & Littlefield
Page : 237 pages
File Size : 53,8 Mb
Release : 2019-07-05
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 9781498582391
The Methods of Science and Religion by Tiddy Smith Pdf
Tiddy Smith argues that the conflict between science and religion is ultimately a disagreement about what kinds of methods we should use for investigating the world. Specifically, scientists and religious folk disagree over which belief-forming methods are reliable. In the course of justifying any scientific claim, scientists typically appeal to methods which generate agreement between independent investigators, and which converge on the same answers to the same questions. In contrast, religious claims are typically justified by methods which neither generate agreement nor converge in their results (for example, dreams, visions, mystical experiences etc.). This fundamental difference in methodologies can neatly account for the conflict between science and religion.
The Oxford Handbook of Religion and Science
Philip Clayton,Zachary Simpson
Author : Philip Clayton,Zachary Simpson
Publisher : Oxford Handbooks Online
Page : 1041 pages
File Size : 45,9 Mb
Release : 2006
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 9780199279272
The Oxford Handbook of Religion and Science by Philip Clayton,Zachary Simpson Pdf
The field of `science and religion' is exploding in popularity among both academics and the reading public. This is a comprehensive and authoritative introduction to the debate, written by the leading experts yet accessible to the general reader.
Physics, Metaphysics and God
Jack W. Geis
Author : Jack W. Geis
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 408 pages
File Size : 42,6 Mb
Release : 2003-06-25
Category : Metaphysics
ISBN : 1410752186
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Belief in God in an Age of Science
John Polkinghorne
Author : John Polkinghorne
Publisher : Yale University Press
Page : 212 pages
File Size : 54,6 Mb
Release : 1998-03-30
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9780300174106
Belief in God in an Age of Science by John Polkinghorne Pdf
John Polkinghorne is a major figure in today’s debates over the compatibility of science and religion. Internationally known as both a theoretical physicist and a theologian—the only ordained member of the Royal Society—Polkinghorne brings unique qualifications to his inquiry into the possibilities of believing in God in an age of science. In this thought-provoking book, the author focuses on the collegiality between science and theology, contending that these "intellectual cousins" are both concerned with interpreted experience and with the quest for truth about reality. He argues eloquently that scientific and theological inquiries are parallel. The book begins with a discussion of what belief in God can mean in our times. Polkinghorne explores a new natural theology and emphasizes the importance of moral and aesthetic experience and the human intuition of value and hope. In other chapters, he compares science’s struggle to understand the nature of light with Christian theology’s struggle to understand the nature of Christ. He addresses the question, Does God act in the physical world? And he extends his ideas about the role of chaos theory, surveys the prospects for future dialogue between scientific and theological thinkers, and defends a critical realist understanding of the activities of both disciplines. Polkinghorne concludes with a consideration of the nature of mathematical truths and the links between the complementary realities of physical and mental experience.
Revealed Universe Impact on Religion
Jay Schlickman
Author : Jay Schlickman
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 371 pages
File Size : 47,8 Mb
Release : 2017-08-19
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 1521879249
Revealed Universe Impact on Religion by Jay Schlickman Pdf
This treatise demonstrates that we live in a universe governed by the laws of quantum mechanical uncertainty and relativistic complexity. Based on this thesis, the treatise uniquely codifies the root cause of the science-religion conflict. A clear and concise definition of the critical difference between science and religion is presented in terms of science's WHAT-IS and religion's WHAT-OUGHT-TO-BE imperatives. The following assumptions are used:* The purpose of science: Science discovers the WHAT-IS of existence by means of analytical models and experimental verification that requires falsifiability.* The purpose of religion: Religion declares the WHAT-OUGHT-TO-BE of existence by means of religious doctrine that requires religious absolutism.* The science-religion conflict: It is this intellectual tension that forms the root-cause of the science-religion conflict because the tension pits falsifiability against absolutism that results in a historically intractable dilemma.* The purpose of this treatise: This treatise illustrates how the essentials of modern physics can be integrated into religious doctrine in such a way that it negates religious absolutism.The proposed method requires the laws of quantum mechanical uncertainty and relativistic complexity be incorporated within religious canons under the realization that it is highly unlikely that any person, group or civilization can possibly discern the infinite and eternal attributes of any deity.Because we can never be certain that we have encompassed completely either the divine nature or its infinitely complex attributes, it is most likely that all religions are just as valid as any other since each religion will have discerned only a sliver of the total divine knowledge.In particular, the melding of modern physics discoveries with religious doctrine is desperately needed to reverse our current path in the Middle East that could lead us ultimately to mutual self-extermination and the end of all life on this Earth.
God and Natural Order
Shaun C. Henson
Author : Shaun C. Henson
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 380 pages
File Size : 50,8 Mb
Release : 2013-12-04
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9781317915010
God and Natural Order by Shaun C. Henson Pdf
In God and Natural Order: Physics, Philosophy, and Theology, Shaun Henson brings a theological approach to bear on contemporary scientific and philosophical debates on the ordered or disordered nature of the universe. Henson engages arguments for a unified theory of the laws of nature, a concept with monotheistic metaphysical and theological leanings, alongside the pluralistic viewpoints set out by Nancy Cartwright and other philosophers of science, who contend that the nature of physical reality is intrinsically complex and irreducible to a single unifying theory. Drawing on the work of theologian Wolfhart Pannenberg and his conception of the Trinitarian Christian god, the author argues that a theological line of inquiry can provide a useful framework for examining controversies in physics and the philosophy of science. God and Natural Order will raise provocative questions for theologians, Pannenberg scholars, and researchers working in the intersection of science and religion.
Science and the Study of God
Alan G. Padgett
Author : Alan G. Padgett
Publisher : Wm. B. Eerdmans Publishing
Page : 236 pages
File Size : 55,7 Mb
Release : 2003
Category : God
ISBN : 080283941X
Science and the Study of God by Alan G. Padgett Pdf
For many today, religion and science are seen as enemies battling for human hearts and minds. In this new book Alan Padgett shows that they can and should work together in developing a worldview that is at once spiritually meaningful and scientifically sound. Pursuing a perspective that he calls the "mutuality model," Padgett highlights the contributions that both religion and science make to a full understanding of the world and our place in it. He argues convincingly that the natural sciences and theology can rationally influence each other without giving up their important distinctives and methods. The book explores the nature of informal reason and worldviews, the character of theology as a spiritual and academic discipline, and the question of what counts as natural science. Along the way, Padgett discusses such topics as thermodynamics, time, resurrection, and the historical Jesus as examples of the powerful model that he is developing.
The Relevance of Natural Science to Theology
W.H. Austin
Author : W.H. Austin
Publisher : Springer
Page : 141 pages
File Size : 41,8 Mb
Release : 1976-06-18
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 9781349026906
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Finding Answers History! Religion! Science!
Pauline Schiappa
Author : Pauline Schiappa
Publisher : AuthorHouse
Page : 452 pages
File Size : 47,6 Mb
Release : 2018-04-28
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9781546239185
Finding Answers History! Religion! Science! by Pauline Schiappa Pdf
A mysterious and tremendous thing comes to reveal itself in the course of the lifetime of an earthly human. So mysteriously confronted by it, the earthly human becomes awed by this compelling human attribute. The earthly human becomes so enraptured by it that he begins to consider it as a quality that defines and explains his human nature. The earthly human desires to know; the earthly human desires to understand that which his physical body sense experiences of earthly reality. The earthly human holds so much psychological and intellectual desire toward knowing it that he gives it a nametruth. How does the earthly human discover truth?
Why Beliefs Matter
E. Brian Davies
Author : E. Brian Davies
Publisher : OUP Oxford
Page : 272 pages
File Size : 45,6 Mb
Release : 2010-07-09
Category : Science
ISBN : 9780191591563
Why Beliefs Matter by E. Brian Davies Pdf
In the follow-up to his acclaimed Science in the Looking Glass, Brian Davies discusses deep problems about our place in the world, using a minimum of technical jargon. The book argues that 'absolutist' ideas of the objectivity of science, dating back to Plato, continue to mislead generations of both theoretical physicists and theologians. It explains that the multi-layered nature of our present descriptions of the world is unavoidable, not because of anything about the world, but because of our own human natures. It tries to rescue mathematics from the singular and exceptional status that it has been assigned, as much by those who understand it as by those who do not. Working throughout from direct quotations from many of the important contributors to its subject, it concludes with a penetrating criticism of many of the recent contributions to the often acrimonious debates about science and religions.