Turning images in philosophy, science, and religion :
[Book]
a new book of nature /
edited by Charles Taliaferro and Jil Evans
1st ed
New York :
Oxford University Press,
2011
xi, 256 p. :
ill. ;
24 cm
Includes bibliographical references and index
Introduction / Charles Taliaferro and Jil Evans -- "Loving insight" : D'Arcy Thompson's Aristotle and the soul in nature / Martin Kemp -- Early scientific images of God : Descartes, Hobbes, and Newton / Geoffrey Gorham -- Darwinian tensions / Anthony O'Hear -- Evolutionary emergence of intentionality and imagination / Dale Jacquette -- Naturalism, imagination, and the scientific worldview / E.J. Lowe -- Homo imaginans and the concursus divinus / Douglas Hedley -- Aesthetics, phantasia, and the theistic / Daniel N. Robinson -- Naturalism lost : nature regained / Conor Cunningham -- The sacred beauty of nature / Gordon Graham -- Imaging religious thoughts in the appearance of sensory things / Mark Wynn -- Re-imaging the Galapagos / Jil Evans
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"The debate between "new atheists" and religious apologists today is often hostile. This book sets a new tone by locating the debate between theism and naturalism (most "new atheists" are self-described "naturalists") in the broader context of reflection on imagination and aesthetics. The eleven essays will be of interest to anyone who is fascinated by the power of imagination and the role of aesthetics in deciding between worldviews or philosophies of nature. Representing a variety of points of view, authors include outstanding philosophers of religion and of science, a distinguished art historian, and a visual artist."--Dust jacket
"The debate between "new atheists" and religious apologists today is often hostile. This book sets a new tone by locating the debate between theism and naturalism (most "new atheists" are self-described "naturalists") in the broader context of reflection on imagination and aesthetics. The eleven essays will be of interest to anyone who is fascinated by the power of imagination and the role of aesthetics in deciding between worldviews or philosophies of nature. Representing a variety of points of view, authors include outstanding philosophers of religion and of science, a distinguished art historian, and a visual artist."--Dust jacket