Science, Religion, and the Human Experience

(Jacob Rumans) #1

334 index


Opticks(Newton), 169
Origin of Species(Darwin), 176, 188, 213
other, self and, 270
Ovenden, Michael, 156
Owen, Richard, 176
Oyama, Susan, 277


Paley, William, 166, 169, 170, 172, 195
Pannikar, Raimundo, 158
pantheism, 213, 224n17
Paradiso(Dante), 117
paradox, 20
Peale, Norman Vincent, 293
perception, 264, 315
performative speech, 10, 29
phenomenology, 16, 78, 262, 268, 273,
311
physicalism, 114, 120
physics, 147–148, 156–158, 319–320.See
alsoscience; cosmology;specific persons,
topics
Piaget, J., 268
placebo effect, 294
Planck, M., 148
Pledge of Allegiance, U.S., 91
Poincare ́, H., 8, 18
Polanyi, Michael, 96
Popper, Karl, 156
positivism, 208
pragmatism, 27, 29
prayer, 16, 295, 296, 298
predator/prey, 243
prediction, and chaos, 8
Price, George McCready, 15, 216–219
Prince Charles, 5, 6
Principles of Psychology(James), 311, 314,
324
process, 20
Process and Reality(Whitehead), 157
Proctor, Jim, 11
Pseudo-Dionysius, 51
Ptolemy, 118
Putnam, Hilary, 10, 11, 114, 318, 319


quantum theory, 148, 154, 156, 157
Question Concerning Technology, The
(Heidegger), 66n19


randomness, 196, 197
rationalism, 6


rationality, 6, 34, 52.See alsoscience;
objectivity
realism, 309
Reformation, 41
reification, 150
relationality, 149, 150, 157–158;
experience and, 20, 154; metaphysics
and, 150; paradigm of, 147; reality and,
13; relativity and, 135, 156, 317; schema
for, 154
relativity theory, 3, 6, 135, 156, 317
relaxation response, 292
religion: belief and, 45 (see alsobelief );
definitions of, 4; experience in, 11, 72;
faith and, 46; health and, 289, 298–
299; images in, 10 (see also
iconography); language and, 124;
rationality and, 34; responsibility and,
81; speech-acts in, 29; trust and, 96.
See also specific persons, faiths, topics
responsibility, 81
Richards, Robert J., 207
Riordan, Michael, 147
Robertson, A. T., 206
Rogers, Henry Darwin, 211, 212
Romanes, George, 222n6
Rosch, Eleanor, 262
Rosenzweig, Franz, 72, 80
Royal Society of London, 321
Rupke, Nicolaas, 171
Ruse, Michael, 14, 199–201
Russell, Bertrand, 149
Russell, Jeffrey, 12

sacred, mystical and, 66n18
Sagi, Avi, 71
Scheler, Max, 273
Schlegel, Richard, 147
Schro ̈dinger, E., 320
science: Barbour typology and, 4;
cosmology (seecosmology); definitions
of, 4; faith and, 55; first citation, 118;
knowledge and, 45; objectivity and (see
objectivity); rationality and, 52;
scientific method, 4; technology and,
10, 49–66; trust and, 96.See also
specific persons, faiths, topics
Science and the Modern World
(Whitehead), 167
“Science as a Vocation” (Weber), 52
Scopes trial, 146, 190
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