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The Return to Cosmology - Postmodern Science and the Theology of Nature (Hardcover)
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The Return to Cosmology - Postmodern Science and the Theology of Nature (Hardcover)
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"Can we rely on the discoveries that scientists make about one or
another part, or aspect, of the world as a basis for drawing
conclusions abou the Universe as a Whole?" Thirty years ago, the
separateness of different intellectual disciplines was an
unquestioned axiom of intellectual procedure. By the
mid-nineteen-seventies, however, even within the natural sciences
proper, a shift from narrowly disciplinary preoccupations to more
interdisciplinary issues had made it possible to reopen questions
about he cosmological significance of the scientific world picture
and scarcely possible any longer to rule out all religious
cosmology and "unscientific." This book, the product of both a
professional and personal quest, follow the debate about
cosmology--the theory of the universe--as it has changed from 1945
to 1982. The open essay, "Scientific Mythology" reflects the
influence of Stephen Toulmin's postwar study with Ludwig
Wittgenstein in its skepticism about the naive extrapolation of
scientific concepts into nonscientific contexts. Skepticism
gradually gives way to qualified optimism that there may be "still
a real chance of working outward from the natural sciences into a
larger cosmological realm" in a series of essays on the
cosmological speculations of individual scientists, including
Arthur Koestler, Jacques Monod, Carl Sagan, and others. In the
programmatic concluding essays, Toulmin argues that the classic
Newtonian distinction between the observer and the observed was
inimical not only to the received religious cosmology but also to
any attempt to understand humanity and nature as parts of a single
cosmos. In the twentieth century, however, what he calls "the death
of the spectator" has forced the postmodern
scientist--theoretically, in quantum physics, and practically, in
the recognized impact of science-derived technologies on the
environment--to include himself in his science. This title is part
of UC Press's Voices Revived program, which commemorates University
of California Press's mission to seek out and cultivate the
brightest minds and give them voice, reach, and impact. Drawing on
a backlist dating to 1893, Voices Revived makes high-quality,
peer-reviewed scholarship accessible once again using
print-on-demand technology. This title was originally published in
1982.
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