On Ian Harbour's Issues in Science and Religion
Abstract. Although Ian Barbour endorses process organicism in Issues in Science and Religion, his rhetoric against vitalism and dualism makes his discussion of life, mind, and the part-whole relationship sound like relational emergentism and hence like a denial of process philosophy's nondualis...
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| Format: | Electronic Review |
| Language: | English |
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Wiley-Blackwell
1988
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Zygon
Year: 1988, Volume: 23, Issue: 1, Pages: 57-81 |
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God-world relation
B Book review B postmodern science B Process Philosophy B Emergence B mind-body relation B science and theology |
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| Summary: | Abstract. Although Ian Barbour endorses process organicism in Issues in Science and Religion, his rhetoric against vitalism and dualism makes his discussion of life, mind, and the part-whole relationship sound like relational emergentism and hence like a denial of process philosophy's nondualistic interactionism. Also his rhetoric against a God of the gaps seems to exclude the God-shaped hole in Alfred North Whitehead's philosophy. A more consistent articulation of Whitehead's postmodern position would lead to greater adequacy and consistency on these issues, and perhaps also to a more radically postmodern view of science—a view which Whitehead himself only sometimes suggested. |
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| ISSN: | 1467-9744 |
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| Persistent identifiers: | DOI: 10.1111/j.1467-9744.1988.tb00618.x |