Science and the Truthfulness of Beauty: How the Personal Perspective Discovers Creation
Science and the Truthfulness of Beauty -- Routledge Science and Religion Series -- Title -- Copyright -- Contents -- Preface and Acknowledgements -- 1 Introduction: In the Eye of the Beholder -- 2 Two Different Ways of Knowing? -- How Scientists See Their Work -- An Account of Modern Science -- An E...
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| Format: | Electronic Book |
| Language: | English |
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London
Taylor and Francis
2017
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| In: | Year: 2017 |
| Edition: | 1st ed |
| Series/Journal: | Routledge Science and Religion Series
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| Parallel Edition: | Print version: Gilbert, Robert: Science and the Truthfulness of Beauty : How the Personal Perspective Discovers Creation. - London : Taylor and Francis,c2017. - 9781472472175 |
| Summary: | Science and the Truthfulness of Beauty -- Routledge Science and Religion Series -- Title -- Copyright -- Contents -- Preface and Acknowledgements -- 1 Introduction: In the Eye of the Beholder -- 2 Two Different Ways of Knowing? -- How Scientists See Their Work -- An Account of Modern Science -- An End to Hypotheses? -- The Realism of Scientific Insight -- Scientific Method Versus Religious Method? -- 3 Beauty Everywhere -- Classification and Statistical Analysis -- Symmetry -- Mathematical Equations -- Molecular Structure -- The Interior of the Living Cell -- Physiology -- The Behaviour of Animals -- 4 Playful Beauty -- The Young Fox and The Fallow Deer -- Scientists are Like Children at Play -- Playing by the Rules -- Imaginary Worlds: Hypotheses and Ideas -- Playing Games: Experimental Process -- Toys: Equipment and Infrastructure -- The Fascination of Children -- 5 Worldly, Natural and Real Beauty -- Common Points of View: Cosmology, Geology and Evolution -- Evolutionary Accounts of the Capacity to Perceive Beauty -- Talking about Beauty -- Faking It: Couldn't I Be Tricked into Thinking Something Beautiful? -- But Isn't My Perception of Beauty Something I Get From my Culture? -- Beauty and Science: Leaping from Subjectivity to Objectivity -- Sharing Our Understanding of Beauty in a Shared World -- 6 Where does the Beauty Come From? -- Why is There Anything Rather Than Nothing? -- Scientific Language and the Precision of Our Knowledge -- 7 Understanding Beauty -- Beautiful, Moral Lives -- Why does What We Say to Each Other Mean Anything at All? -- Beauty: Creation and science at a Glance -- 8 Loving Beauty -- Appreciating the Beauty of Something Involves Being Moved by it -- Understanding Truths about the World Requires us to Value it for Itself -- Science Requires a Relationship to What We Study -- When We do Science We Love the World 9 Conclusion: Truthful beauty -- Loving Knowledge of the World Requires a Personal Point of View -- The Personal Point of View is Irreducible -- Can We Make Sense of this? -- The Beauty of the World and The Image of God -- Bibliography -- Index |
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| ISBN: | 1317059018 |