Facets of Faith and Science: The Role of Beliefs in Mathematics and the Natural Sciences Volume 2: The Role of Beliefs in Mathematics and the Natural ... in Mathematics and the Natural Sciences - Hardcover

Meer, Jitse

9780819199881: Facets of Faith and Science: The Role of Beliefs in Mathematics and the Natural Sciences Volume 2: The Role of Beliefs in Mathematics and the Natural ... in Mathematics and the Natural Sciences

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 0819199885 ISBN 13: 9780819199881

Publisher: University Press of America, 1996

This second volume of Facets of Faith and Science focuses on the effects religious and metaphysical beliefs have on the content of the specific roles of metaphysical and religious beliefs in explanation and theory construction in biology, mathematics and physics. Co-published with The Pascal Centre for Advanced Studies in Faith and Science.

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Review:

The sixty essays in this wide-ranging collection illustrate how intellectually exciting the borderland between religion and the natural sciences, for a time almost abandoned, has once again become.--Ernan McMullin, University of Notre Dame

Synopsis:

This second volume explores the specific roles of metaphysical and religious beliefs in explanation and theory construction in the natural sciences. It focuses on the effects of religious and metaphysical beliefs in explanation and theory construction in biology, mathematics, and physics.

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