Science, Religion, and the Human Experience

index 333

and, 29, 30–31; metaphor and (see
metaphor); nature and, 116, 168, 209;
religion and, 124; speech-act theory,
10, 28–29, 32, 37
Latour, Bruno, 9, 10, 19
LeConte, Joseph, 15, 208–213
Leibniz, G., 83
Lesley, J. Peter, 15, 210–213
Levinas, Emmanuel, 273
Lewis, C. S., 103
Lewontin, Richard, 120
Linde, Andrei, 132
Locke, John, 75
love, speech and, 29, 30–31, 34
Luhmann, Niklas, 97
Luria, Isaac, 136
Lyell, Charles, 213, 225n20

Mach, E., 79
MacKay, Donald, 144, 145
Macloskie, George, 177
Maharishi Mahesh Yogi, 291
Malthus, Thomas, 165
Marin, Louis, 40
Marsh, Frank Lewis, 220
Martineau, Harriet, 174
Marx, Karl, 194
materialism, 119, 121, 313, 315–317, 323
mathematics, 319, 320, 322
Matrix: Reloaded, The(film), 87
Matt, Daniel, 12
Maxwell, James Clerk, 168
McDowell, John, 73, 79
medicine, 16, 287–307
meditation, 16, 292
memory, 83n9
metaphor, 111–128, 121–125; authenticity
and, 122; defined, 121; history of
religion and, 123; language and, 123,
124; myth and (seemythology);
ontology and, 123–124; symbolism and,
122
metaphysics, 13, 150, 166
Midgley, Mary, 96, 97
Milgram, Stanley, 101
mind: brain and, 15, 17, 238 (see also
cognitive theory); Chinese room
argument, 68; concepts and, 237–259;
consciousness and, 312, 315, 320–321;
definition for, 9; detecting agents, 243;
emergence and, 61, 313; empathy and,

265, 266; evolution and, 242; healing

and, 16; intention and, 242; mind/

body problem, 238, 265–269, 279;

objectivity and, 309 (see alsosubject/

object distinction); phenomenology

and, 311; science of, 261; social

interaction and, 245

Mind of God(Davies), 7

Mind/Supermind lecture series, 7

monism, 5, 7, 20, 149

Moore, G. E., 149

Moore, James R., 174, 206, 222n6

moral values, 77–78, 98, 248–251

multiple-system theory, 239–240

Murdoch, Iris, 78

Muslims, 126n32

mysticism: contemplatives and, 16, 262,

276, 321; Jewish, 12, 13, 129–142; Kant

and, 76; modernity and, 49–66; sacred

and, 66n18; techno-science and, 10

mythology, 12, 133, 151, 152, 153, 193, 240

natural law, 90

natural selection.Seeevolution, theory of

nature: bifurcation of, 18, 19; book of,

116, 168, 209; clock metaphor, 168;

God and, 62, 213 (see alsocreationism);

naturalism, 171–175; nature religion,

90; unification of, 13, 165–183

network culture, 58, 59

Newtonian theory, 8, 9, 118, 146, 153,

156, 169

Newtown, 56

Nicholas of Cusa, 51, 57, 66n23

Nishida Kitaro, 154, 155, 159

Nishitani, Keiji, 154

NOMA argument, 98

North, J. D., 156

Numbers, Ronald, 14, 15

obedience, 101

objectivity, 17, 58, 99; Heidegger and, 53,

54; mind and, 309 (see alsomind);

science and (seescience); speech-act

theory and, 37; subjectivity and, 18, 39,

58, 60, 100 (see alsosubject/object);

types of, 37; value-neutrality and, 52

O’Hara, Father, 81, 84n25

Oliver, Harold, 13, 100

one-domain model, 5

Oppenheimer, Robert, 158