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Nature of Nature : Examining the Role of Naturalism in Science.
Title:
Nature of Nature : Examining the Role of Naturalism in Science.
Author:
Gordon, Bruce L.
ISBN:
9781610171236
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Physical Description:
1 online resource (989 pages)
Contents:
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 -- 40 Naturalism, Science, and Religion -- 41 Theism Defended -- Acknowledgments -- Contributors -- Sources and Permissions -- Names Index -- Subject Index.
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Electronic reproduction. Ann Arbor, Michigan : ProQuest Ebook Central, 2017. Available via World Wide Web. Access may be limited to ProQuest Ebook Central affiliated libraries.
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