It Keeps Me Seeking
The Invitation from Science, Philosophy and Religion
- Format: Innbundet
- Antall sider: 368
- Språk: Engelsk
- Forlag/Utgiver: SD Books
- EAN: 9780198808282
- Utgivelsesår: 2018
- Bidragsyter: Briggs, Andrew (Professor of Nanomaterials, Professor of Nanomaterials, University of Oxford, UK); Halvorson, Hans (Stuart Professor of Philosophy, Stuart Professor of Philosophy, Princeton University
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Here is a fresh look at how science contributes to the bigger picture of human flourishing, through a collage of science and philosophy, richly illustrated by the authors'' own experience and personal reflection. They survey the territory of fundamental physics, machine learning, philosophy of human identity, evolutionary biology, miracles, arguments from design, naturalism, the history of ideas, and more. The natural world can be appreciated not only for itself, but also as an eloquent gesture, a narrative and a pointer beyond itself. Our human journey is not to a theorem or a treatise, but to a meeting which encompasses all our capacities. In this meeting, science is the means to find out about the structure of the physical world of which we are a part, not a means to reduce ourselves and our fellow human beings to mere objects of scrutiny, and still less a means to attempt the utterly futile exercise of trying to do that to God. We have intellectual permission to be open to the noti