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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 Fallacy
6 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 fromLack of Explanatory Power
14.3 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 Community
20 Encounter
21 The Human Being
22 Witnessed to
Appendix: Boyle’s Law
Notes
Bibliography
Index