Religion and Science,9780195115512

Religion and Science

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ISBN13: 9780195115512
ISBN10: 0195115511
Format: Paperback
Pub. Date: 1997-05-29
Publisher(s): Oxford University Press
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Summary

"New truth is often uncomfortable," Bertrand Russell wrote, "but it is the most important achievement of our species." In "Religion and Science" (1961), his popular polemic against religious dogma, he covers the ground from demonology to quantum physics, yet concedes that science cannot touch the profound feelings of personal religious experience.

Author Biography


The late Bertrand Russell, English philosopher and mathematician, was a Fellow of Trinity College, Cambridge University, where he taught for many years. He also lectured widely in the United States. Winner of the 1950 Nobel Prize for Literature, he is the author of many books including the influential Principia Mathematica, with Alfred North Whitehead, and The Autobiography of Bertrand Russell 1872-1967, published in three volumes.
Michael Ruse is Professor of Philosophy and Zoology at the University of Guelph, Ontario. He is the author of many books, including Evolutionary Naturalism and The Darwinian Paradigm.

Table of Contents

INTRODUCTION
MICHAEL RUSE
I. GROUND OF CONFLICT
7(12)
II. THE COPERNICAN REVOLUTION
19(30)
III. EVOLUTION
49(33)
IV. DEMONOLOGY AND MEDICINE
82(28)
V. SOUL AND BODY
110(34)
VI. DETERMINISM
144(27)
VII. MYSTICISM
171(19)
VIII. COSMIC PURPOSE
190(33)
IX. SCIENCE OF ETHICS
223(21)
X. CONCLUSION
244(9)
INDEX 253

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