Science, Religion, and the Human Experience

(Jacob Rumans) #1
index 335

Searle, John, 68n44
self, 271; empathy and, 266; mind and
(seemind); other and, 270–271, 272;
self-healing, 294; subjectivity, 59 (see
alsosubjectivity)
self-creation, 58–65
separationism, 145, 146
Serres, Michel, 50, 56, 61, 64
Seventh-day Adventists, 216, 217, 218,
219
Shantideva, 270, 271
sin, 200
singularity, 135
skepticism, 11, 80
Smith, Adam, 269
Smolin, Lee, 147, 148
sociobiology, 193
Sokal, Alan, 100
souls, 198, 199
space-time, 74, 148, 316
speech-act theory, 28, 32, 37
Spencer, Herbert, 189, 215
St. John of the Cross, 134
Stafford, Barbara Maria, 57
state/church, 95
Stengers, Isabelle, 19
Strauss, David, 152
Strawson, Peter, 73
string theory, 319
subject/object distinction: belief and,
39; contemplatives and, 321; ego and,
282; experience and, 19, 155; Greek
thought and, 148; Heisenberg on, 157;
intersubjectivity and, 275; technology
and, 58, 60; truth and, 13; Whitehead
and, 157
subjectivity: consciousness and (see
mind); emergence and, 61; James on,
311; modern period and, 63; objectivity
and (seesubject/object distinction);
posthuman, 60; self and, 59, 282n36;
subject/object (seesubject/object
distinction); technology and, 57
supernaturalism, 15, 152, 240, 241, 245,
248, 252
symbol, and metaphor, 122
symmetry, 137, 316
systems theory, 239–240


Tao of Physics(Capra), 7
Taoism, 140n15


Taylor, Mark C., 58, 60
technology, and science, 10, 49–66.See
alsoscience;specific topics
Teilhard de Chardin Society, 191
Templeton Foundation, 9, 144, 155
theocracy, 95
Thompson, Evan, 16
Thomson, J. J., 156
three-body problem, 8, 9
time/space, 74, 148, 316
Tocqueville, Alexis de, 92
Tomasello, 267, 268
Toulmin, Stephen, 99
transcendence, 278
transcendental meditation (TM), 291
trust, and authority, 87–108
Turiel, Eliot, 249
Turner, F. M., 222n6
Tyndall, John, 172, 176, 211

universe.Seecosmology
utopia, 56

values, and facts, 6, 52
Varela, Francisco J., 262, 279, 315
Varieties of Religious Experience, The
(James), 27
Vaucoleurs, Gerard de, 143
Vermeer, 77
Vico, Giambattista, 114
vipassanapractice, 292
von Balthasar, Hans Urs, 151

Walcott, C. D., 146
Wallace, Alan, 17, 278
Ward, Robert Elsmore, 207
Warfield, B. B., 226n33
Way of the Bodhisattva, The(Shantideva),
270
Web sites, 298
Weber, Max, 10, 52, 55, 105n21
Weinberg, Steven, 134, 140n15, 316
Whewell, William, 176
White, Ellen G., 219
Whitehead, Alfred North, 18, 19, 20, 34,
143, 154, 156
Wilber, Ken, 7
Wilberforce, Samuel, 175
Will to Believe, The(James), 82
Willey, Joe, 220
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