The nature of nature examining the role of naturalism in science
""Foreword ""; ""Introduction ""; ""Part I Naturalizing Science: Some Historical and Philosophical Considerations ""; ""1 The Rise of Naturalism and Its Problematic Role in Science and Culture""; ""2 Science...
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Wilmington, Delaware
ISI Books
2011
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Tag hinzufügen | Zusammenfassung: | ""Foreword ""; ""Introduction ""; ""Part I Naturalizing Science: Some Historical and Philosophical Considerations ""; ""1 The Rise of Naturalism and Its Problematic Role in Science and Culture""; ""2 Science without God: Natural Laws and Christian Beliefs ""; ""3 Varieties of Methodological Naturalism ""; ""4 Sauce for the Goose: Intelligent Design, Scientific Methodology, and the Demarcation Problem ""; ""Part II the Epistemological and Ontological Foundations of Naturalism ""; ""5 Evolution versus Naturalism ""; ""6 More on the Illusion of Defeat "" ""7 Evolutionary Naturalism: Epistemically Unseated or Illusorily Defeated? """"8 A Quatum-Theoretic Argument against Naturalism ""; ""9 The Incompatibility of Naturalism and Scientific Realism ""; ""10 Truth and Realism ""; ""11 Must Naturalists Be Realists ""; ""12 The Role of Concepts in Our Access to Reality ""; ""Part III The Origin of Biological Information and The Emergence of Biological Complexity ""; ""13 On the Origins of Life ""; ""14 DNA: The Signature in the Cell ""; ""15 Mysteries of Life: Is There ""Something Else""? "" ""16 Life's conservation Law: Why Darwinian Evolution Cannot Create Biological Information """"17 Regulated Recruitment and Cooperativity in the Design of Biological Regualtory Systems ""; ""18 The Nature of Protein Folds: Quantifying the Difficulty of an Unguided Search through Protein Sequence Space ""; ""19 The Limits of Non-Intelligent Explanations in Molecular Biology ""; ""20 The Chain of Accidents and the Rule of Law: The Role of Contingency and Necessity in Evolution ""; ""21 Molecular Convergence: Repeated Evolution or Repeated Designs? "" ""Part IV Cosmological Origins and Fine-Tuning """"22 Eternal Inflation and Its Implications ""; ""23 Naturalism and the Origin of the Universe ""; ""24 Cosmic Evolution. Naturalism, and Divine Creativity, or Who Owns the Robust Formational Evonomy Principle? ""; ""25 Living in the Multiverse ""; ""26 Ballons on a String: A Critique of Multiverse Cosmology ""; ""27 Habitable Zones and Fine-Tuning ""; ""Part V Mathematics ""; ""28 Mathematics Naturalism ""; ""29 Mathematics-Application and Applicability ""; ""Part VI Evolutionary Pscyhology, Neuroscience, and Consciousness "" ""30 Toward Mapping the Evolved Functional Organization of Mind and Brain """"31 On the Origins of the Mind ""; ""32 Consciousness ""; ""33 Consciousness and Neuroscience ""; ""34 Supervenience and the Downward Efficacy of the Mental: Non-reductive Physicalism and the Chrisitian Tradition ""; ""35 Conscious Events as Orchestrated Space-Time Selections ""; ""36 Quatum Interactive Dualism: The Libet and Einstein-Podolsky-Rosen Casual Anomalies ""; ""37 The Physical Sciences, Neuroscience, and Dualism ""; ""Part VII Science, Ethics, and Religion ""; ""38 Evolution and Ethics "" ""39 Naturalism's Incapacity to Capture the Good Will "" |
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| Beschreibung: | Includes bibliographical references and indexes |
| Beschreibung: | XXIV, 963 S Ill., graph. Darst 26 cm |
| ISBN: | 1935191284 1-935191-28-4 9781935191285 978-1-935191-28-5 |