Science as salvation : a modern myth and its meaning / Mary Midgley.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Midgley, Mary, 1919-

Midgley M Staff, Corporate Author.

Series:

Gifford lectures Science as salvation

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Science--Philosophy.

Science.

Religion and science.

Physical Description:

x, 239 p.

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

London ; New York : Routledge, 2002.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

What is the role of scientists in society? What should we think when they talk about more than just science? Mary Midgley discusses the high spiritual ambitions which tend to gather around the notion of science.

Contents:

1. Salvation and the academics

2. Prophecies, Marxist and anthropic

3. Minimalism does not work

4. The fascination of chance

5. The function of faith

6. Enlightenment and information

7. Putting nature in her place

8. The remarkable masculine birth of time

9. Unexpected difficulties of deicide

10. The uninhabitable vacuum

11. Parsimony, integrity and puritanism

12. Questions of motivation

13. The hunger for synthesis

14. Evolution and the apotheosis of man

15. Dyson, animism and the nature of matter

16. Space, freedom and romance

17. The anthropic synthesis

18. Quantum quandaries

19. Conserving the spirit.

Notes:

Bibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph

Includes bibliographical references (p. 225-235) and index.

ISBN:

1-134-84115-9

1-134-84116-7

9786610182213

1-280-18221-0

0-203-04689-7

9780203046890

OCLC:

61524388