Science in theistic contexts : cognitive dimensions / edited by John Hedley Brooke, Margaret J. Osler, and Jitse M. van der Meer.
Contributor(s): Brooke, John Hedley
| Osler, Margaret J | Meer, Jitse M. van der
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TextSeries: Osiris (Bruges, Belgium): 2nd ser., v. 16.Publisher: Chicago : University of Chicago Press, 2001Description: xii, 376 pages : illustrations, portraits, facsimiles ; 26 cmContent type: text Media type: unmediated Carrier type: volumeISBN: 0226075648Subject(s): Religion and science | Science -- HistoryBibliography, Etc. Note: Includes bibliographical references and index.| Item type | Current library | Shelving location | Call number | Copy number | Status | Date due | Barcode | |
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John Bulow Campbell Library | Midrange | BL240.2 .S327 2001 (Browse shelf(Opens below)) | 1 | Available | 0182902298344 |
Includes bibliographical references and index.
Religious belief and the content of the sciences / J.H. Brooke -- Religious beliefs, metaphysical beliefs, and historiography of science / S.J. Wykstra -- Freeing astronomy from philosophy: an aspect of Islamic influence on science / F.J. Ragep -- Astronomical exegesis: an early modern Jewish interpretation of the heavens / N.J. Efron and M. Fisch -- Theological foundations of Kepler's astronomy / P. Barker and B.R. Goldstein -- Science, religion, and the historiography of the Galileo affair: on the undesirability of oversimplification / M.A. Finocchiaro -- Divine artifice and natural mechanism: Robert Boyle's mechanical philosophy of nature / M.G. Cook -- Whose ends? Teleology in early modern natural philosophy / M.J. Osler -- "God of gods and Lord of lords": the theology of Isaac Newton's General Scholium to the Principia / S.D. Snobelen -- Astronomy and religion (1780-1915): four case studies involving ideas of extraterrestrial life / M.J. Crowe -- Science in theistic contexts: a case study of Alfred Russel Wallace on human evolution / M. Fichman -- "The Sense of sublimity": Darwin on nature and divinity / P.R. Sloan -- Natural selection, teleology, and the logos: from Darwin to the Oxford neo-Darwinists, 1859-1909 / R. England -- The psychology of the emotions in Britain and America in the nineteenth century: the role of religious and antireligious commitments / T. Dixon -- Quaker responses to Darwin / G. Cantor -- Victorian sciences and religions: discordant harmonies / B. Lightman.