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Informationen zum Autor Holmes Rolston III is a world-renowned philosopher, widely recognized as the father of environmental ethics as a modern academic discipline. The winner of the Templeton Prize in 2003 and the Mendel Medal in 2005, he currently holds the position of University Distinguished Professor of Philosophy, Colorado State University. Rolston is associate editor of the journal Environmental Ethics and serves on the editorial boards of a number of other journals. He is the author of six books that have won acclaim in both academic journals and the mainstream press. Klappentext "Rolston's presentation of the methods of science, along with up-to-date summaries of the main achievements of the various sciences, is commendable for its clarity and critical acumen." Zusammenfassung Using the scientific method of inquiry to distill key issues from science, this book integrates them in a study that begins with matter and moves through life, mind, culture, history and spirit. It examines two natural sciences: physics and biology; and then extrapolates examples from two human sciences: psychology and sociology. Inhaltsverzeichnis Preface / vii Introduction to the 2006 Edition. Human Uniqueness and Human Responsibility: Science and Religion in a New Millennium / xi An Open Future / xii Matter, Energy, Information / xiv Genetics: Past, Present, and Future / xviii Human Uniqueness: Brain, Mind, Culture / xxiv Mind Knowing Nature: Realism and Social Construction / xxxi Science and Conscience / xxxv Historical and Cruciform Nature: Life Persisting in Perishing / xxxix Chapter 1. Methods in Scientific and Religious Inquiry / 1 Theories, Creeds, and Experience / 1 Models, Patterns, Paradigms / 8 Objectivity and Involvement / 16 Scientific and Religious Logic / 22 Chapter 2. Matter: Religion and the Physical Sciences / 33 Newtonian Mechanism / 34 Quantum Mechanics and Indeterminacy / 41 Relativity and Matter-Energy / 54 Microphysical and Astrophysical Nature / 65 Chapter 3. Life: Religion and the Biological Sciences / 81 Biochemistry and the Secret of Life / 82 Evolution and the Secret of Life / 90 The Cybernetics of Life / 124 The Life Struggle / 133 Chapter 4. Mind: Religion and the Psychological Sciences / 151 The Possibility of a Human Science / 151 Religion and Freudian Psychoanalysis / 159 Religion and Behavioral Science 170 Religion and Humanistic Psychologies / 183 Chapter 5. Culture: Religion and the Social Sciences / 198 Society and the Individual: Models, Laws, Causes / 200 Interpretive Social Science / 210 Religion as a Social Projection / 219 Values in Social Science / 226 Chapter 6. Nature and History / 238 Nature after Science / 238 Hard Naturalism / 247 Soft Naturalism / 253 Eastern Perspectives / 258 The Dimension of History / 269 Suffering / 286 Chapter 7. Nature, History, and God / 297 Nature and Supernature / 298 Scientific-Existentialist Theism / 306 Process Theism / 315 Transscientific Theism / 322 Insight in Science and Religion: Doing the Truth / 335 Index / 349 ...
