Osiris, Volume 16
Science in Theistic Contexts: Cognitive Dimensions

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© 2001
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Table of Contents

Contents
PREFACE
IntroductionJOHN HEDLEY BROOKE: Religious Belief and the Content of the Sciences
STEPHEN J. WYKSTRA: Religious Beliefs, Metaphysical Beliefs, and Historiography
CASE STUDIES
JAMIL F. RAGEP: Freeing Astronomy from Philosophy:
An Aspect of Islamic Influence on Science
NOAH J. EFRON AND MENACHEM FISCH: Astronomical Exegesis:
An Early Modern Jewish Interpretation of the Heavens
PETER BARKER AND BERNARD R. GOLDSTEIN: Theological Foundations of Kepler’s Astronomy
MAURICE A. FINOCCHIARO: Science, Religion, and the Historiography of the Galileo Affair:
On the Undesirability of Oversimplification
MARGARET G. COOK: Divine Artifice and Natural Mechanism:
Robert Boyle’s Mechanical Philosophy of Nature
MARGARET J. OSLER: Whose Ends? Teleology in Early Modern Natural Philosophy
STEPHEN D. SNOBELEN: "God of gods and Lord of lords":
The Theology of Isaac Newton’s General Scholium to the Principia
MICHAEL J. CROWE: Astronomy and Religion (1780-1915):
Four Case Studies Involving Ideas of Extraterrestrial Life
MARTIN FICHMAN: Science in Theistic Contexts:
A Case Study of Alfred Russel Wallace on Human Evolution
PHILLIP R. SLOAN: "The Sense of Sublimity": Darwin on Nature and Divinity
RICHARD ENGLAND: Natural Selection, Teleology, and the Logos:
From Darwin to the Oxford Neo-Darwinists, 1859-1909
THOMAS DIXON: The Psychology of the Emotions in Britain and America in the Nineteenth Century:
The Role of Religious and Antireligious Commitments
GEOFFREY CANTOR: Quaker Responses to Darwin
BERNARD LIGHTMAN: Victorian Sciences and Religions: Discordant Harmonies
NOTES ON CONTRIBUTORS
INDEX
IntroductionJOHN HEDLEY BROOKE: Religious Belief and the Content of the Sciences
STEPHEN J. WYKSTRA: Religious Beliefs, Metaphysical Beliefs, and Historiography
CASE STUDIES
JAMIL F. RAGEP: Freeing Astronomy from Philosophy:
An Aspect of Islamic Influence on Science
NOAH J. EFRON AND MENACHEM FISCH: Astronomical Exegesis:
An Early Modern Jewish Interpretation of the Heavens
PETER BARKER AND BERNARD R. GOLDSTEIN: Theological Foundations of Kepler’s Astronomy
MAURICE A. FINOCCHIARO: Science, Religion, and the Historiography of the Galileo Affair:
On the Undesirability of Oversimplification
MARGARET G. COOK: Divine Artifice and Natural Mechanism:
Robert Boyle’s Mechanical Philosophy of Nature
MARGARET J. OSLER: Whose Ends? Teleology in Early Modern Natural Philosophy
STEPHEN D. SNOBELEN: "God of gods and Lord of lords":
The Theology of Isaac Newton’s General Scholium to the Principia
MICHAEL J. CROWE: Astronomy and Religion (1780-1915):
Four Case Studies Involving Ideas of Extraterrestrial Life
MARTIN FICHMAN: Science in Theistic Contexts:
A Case Study of Alfred Russel Wallace on Human Evolution
PHILLIP R. SLOAN: "The Sense of Sublimity": Darwin on Nature and Divinity
RICHARD ENGLAND: Natural Selection, Teleology, and the Logos:
From Darwin to the Oxford Neo-Darwinists, 1859-1909
THOMAS DIXON: The Psychology of the Emotions in Britain and America in the Nineteenth Century:
The Role of Religious and Antireligious Commitments
GEOFFREY CANTOR: Quaker Responses to Darwin
BERNARD LIGHTMAN: Victorian Sciences and Religions: Discordant Harmonies
NOTES ON CONTRIBUTORS
INDEX
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