The Reenchantment of science : postmodern proposals / David Ray Griffin, editor.
Contributor(s): Griffin, David Ray
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BookSeries: SUNY series in constructive postmodern thought.Publisher: Albany, N.Y. : State University of New York Press, c1988Description: xv, 173 p. ; 24 cm.ISBN: 0887067840; 9780887067846; 0887067859; 9780887067853.Subject(s): Science -- Philosophy | Science -- Social aspects | Religion and science | Philosophy of scienceDDC classification: 501 THE | Item type | Current library | Call number | Status | Barcode | |
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Enhanced descriptions from Syndetics:
This book describes the move from modern, mechanistic science to a post-modern, organismic science. David Ray Griffin gives voice to a revisionary postmodernism, based on the work of Whitehead and Hartshorne that contrasts with the relativistic, nihilistic postmodernism of Heidegger, Derrida, and Wittgenstein. The book brings together some of today's most creative thinking about science.
Griffin's introductory essay summarizes the way in which the mechanistic view led to the disenchantment of science and the various reasons for the reversal of this process in our time. The essays on physics, cosmology, biology, ecology, psychosomatic medicine and parapsychology bring out the various dimensions of the reenchantment of science: the replacement of modern dualism and reductionism with an ecological, organismic paradigm; the priority of internal relations to external; the casal power of experience; the presence of experience, purpose, and intrinsic value throughout nature; influence at a distance; the laws of nature as habits; the presence of a divine whole in all the parts; and the history of the universe as a self-creative, meaningful story. This book gives a powerful voice to this emerging movement's proposals for a postmodern science, spirituality, and world order.
Includes bibliographies and index.
The cosmic creation story / Brian Swimme -- Postmodern science and a postmodern world / David Bohm -- The postmodern challenge to biology / Charles Birch -- The laws of nature as habits / Rupert Sheldrake -- Religious world modeling and postmodern science / Frederick Ferrâe -- Ecology, science, and religion / John B. Cobb, Jr. -- The postmodern heresy--consciousness as causal / Willis W. Harman -- Parapsychology and postmodern science / Stanley Krippner -- Of minds and molecules / David Ray Griffin.
Table of contents provided by Syndetics
- Introduction to SUNY Series in Constructive Postmodern Thought
- Preface
- 1 Introduction: The Reenchantment of Science
- 2 The Cosmic Creation Story
- 3 Postmodern Science and a Postmodern World
- 4 The Postmodern Challenge to Biology
- 5 The Laws of Nature as Habits: A Postmodern Basis for Science
- 6 Religious World Modeling and Postmodern Science
- 7 Ecology, Science, and Religion: Toward a Postmodern Worldview
- 8 The Postmodern Heresy: Consciousness as Causal
- 9 Parapsychology and Postmodern Science
- 10 Of Minds and Molecules: Postmodern Medicine in a Psychosomatic Universe
- Notes on Contributors and Centers
- Index