The Mind of the Universe: Understanding Science and Religion,9781890151324

The Mind of the Universe: Understanding Science and Religion

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ISBN13: 9781890151324
ISBN10: 1890151327
Format: Hardcover
Pub. Date: 2000-06-01
Publisher(s): Templeton Foundation Pr
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Summary

The Mind of the Universe provides a study in which a competent presentation of physical discoveries is combined with a rational search for philosophical presuppositions of science. An important contribution to the dialogue between religion and science, the explanatory patterns presented in this book offer scientists, philosophers, and artists a philosophical unity on the topic, so important for discussing a holistic and consistent worldview.

Table of Contents

Foreword xi
Cardinal Paul Poupard
Acknowledgments xv
Introduction xvii
Part I. Science Transcends Itself
Science and Beyond
3(24)
The Meeting of Science and Religion
3(4)
The Methodological Gap between Science and Religion
7(6)
The Scientific Outlook
7(3)
Naturalism: Difference or Conflict?
10(2)
The Mediation of Philosophy
12(1)
Boundary Questions
13(7)
Are There Genuine Boundary Questions?
14(2)
Subjective Connections
16(2)
Particular Overlaps
18(2)
The Quest for Integration
20(7)
General Presuppositions and Insights
21(3)
Bridging the Gap
24(3)
The Presuppositions and Implications of Science
27(34)
Why Presuppositions?
27(8)
The General Presuppositions of Science
27(3)
Science without Presuppositions?
30(5)
Scrutinizing Presuppositions
35(14)
Ontological and Epistemological Realism as Presuppositions
35(3)
Presuppositions and the Limits of Science
38(1)
The Nonscientific Bases of Science
39(3)
Can Science Explain Everything?
42(2)
Retrojustification of the Presuppositions of Scientific Inquiry
44(2)
Philosophical Hypotheses in Science
46(1)
The Unreasonable Effectiveness of Science
47(2)
What Presuppositions?
49(4)
Presuppositions in the Three Dimensions of Science
49(2)
The Characteristics of the Presuppositions
51(2)
The Feedback of Scientific Progress
53(8)
Implications for the Presuppositions
53(4)
A Guide to the Bridges
57(4)
Part II. Self-Organization and Divine Action
Natural Creativity
61(46)
The Scientific Quest for Order
61(10)
Natural Order
62(4)
The Scientific Knowledge of Order
66(4)
Scientific Worldviews
70(1)
Describing Worldviews
71(12)
From Nature to History
71(5)
A Purposeless World
76(2)
The World as a Pattern of Numbers
78(3)
The Evolutionary Universe
81(1)
The Relative World of Process
82(1)
A New Scientific Worldview
83(24)
A Unified Picture of the World
83(3)
Morphogenetic Theories
86(3)
Natural Dynamism
89(2)
Patterns in Nature
91(3)
Self-Organization
94(3)
Information
97(4)
An Open Universe
101(6)
The Intelligibiligy of Nature
107(52)
A Self-Contained World?
108(10)
Ontological Reductionism
108(4)
A Self-Created Universe?
112(3)
The Frontiers of Evolution
115(2)
Naturalistic Fallacies
117(1)
Unconscious Intelligence
118(27)
Rationality in Nature
118(7)
Teleological Bridges
125(1)
Updating The Teleological Agenda
125(2)
Natural Teleology: The Fact
127(4)
Natural Teleology: The Explanation
131(5)
Teleological Puzzles
136(1)
Physics and Teleology
137(4)
Biology and Teleology
141(3)
Self-Organization and Teleology
144(1)
A Divine Art
145(14)
The Ways of Divine Action
145(5)
Contingency and a Divine Plan
150(3)
Natural and Divine Creativity
153(6)
Part III. Scientific Creativity and Human Singularity
Reading the Book of Nature
159(48)
The Rationality of Science
160(21)
The Scientific Conception of the World
160(4)
The Critical Attitude of Karl Popper
164(5)
Paradigms and Revolutions: Kuhn's Psychosociohistorical View
169(4)
Programs of Scientific Research: Imre Lakatos
173(2)
Paul Feyerabend's Critique of Scientific Reason
175(1)
Problem Solving and Laudan
176(4)
Rationality: An Overview
180(1)
Three Dimensions in Empirical Science
181(11)
The Goals of Science
181(6)
Scientific Methods
187(3)
Scientific Constructs
190(2)
The Reach of Science
192(15)
Conventional Factors in Science
193(3)
Scientific Objectivity
196(4)
Truth in Science
200(7)
Man in Nature
207(44)
Science, Epistemology, and Naturalism: Four Positions
207(14)
Epistemology Naturalized
208(3)
Evolutionary Epistemology
211(3)
Methodological Naturalism
214(2)
Anthropological Naturalism
216(5)
The Value of Human Knowledge
221(20)
Science and Fallibilism
222(1)
Two Kinds of Fallibilism
222(2)
Fallibilism and Rationalism
224(3)
Scientific Creativity and Fallibilism
227(3)
Four Features of the Reliability of Science
230(1)
Intersubjectivity
231(1)
Empirical Control
232(1)
Predictive Power
233(1)
Progress
234(2)
Reliable Knowledge
236(2)
An Open Epistemology
238(3)
Human Singularity
241(10)
Scientific Arguments for Human Singularity
241(3)
Immanence and Transcendence
244(3)
The Meaning of Science
247(4)
Part IV. Science and Values
Scientific Values
251(48)
Why Values?
251(6)
A Value-Free Science?
252(3)
The Autonomy of Science
255(2)
Evaluating Scientific Values
257(21)
Reconnecting Science and Ethics
257(4)
The Ethical Basis of Science
261(2)
Science as a Social Institution
263(5)
Epistemic Values
268(1)
Value Judgment and Theory Choice
268(1)
The Validation of Scientific Values
269(3)
Plural Aims in Science?
272(2)
Empirical Science as a Moral Task
274(4)
Which Values?
278(12)
Constitutive Values
279(1)
Epistemic Values
280(2)
Pragmatic Values
282(2)
Institutional Values
284(3)
Values in the Four Types of Scientific Activity
287(1)
Research
287(1)
Systematizing
288(1)
Transmission
288(1)
Application
289(1)
Scientific Values and Scientific Progress
290(9)
Epistemic Implications
290(5)
Social Implications
295(4)
The Meaning of Scientific Progress
299(44)
The Reenchantment of the World
300(14)
The Disenchantment of the World
300(6)
Reenchanting the World
306(1)
The Reenchantment of Science
306(3)
Postmodern Science
309(2)
A Holistic Approach
311(1)
Science and Mythical Thinking
312(1)
Updating the Agenda
313(1)
Building New Bridges
314(10)
A Recapitulation of My Argument
314(2)
Applying Scientific Criteria to My Conclusions
316(1)
Explanatory Power
316(2)
Predictive Power
318(2)
Accuracy
320(2)
Variety of Independent Proofs
322(1)
Mutual Support
323(1)
Further Perspectives
324(19)
God's Involvement with Creation
324(3)
God's Purposeful Action
327(2)
God's Transcendence
329(2)
The Divine Pathways on Earth
331(3)
Human Insignificance and Grandeur
334(2)
Integral Naturalism
336(4)
Creativity: Natural, Human, and Divine
340(3)
Bibliography 343(14)
Index 357

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