17. Postscript: What (if Anything) can the Sciences Tell Philosophy and Theology about Faith, Rationality, and the Passions?
- Sarah Coakley
Published Online: 16 AUG 2012
DOI: 10.1002/9781118321997.ch17
Copyright © 2012 Blackwell Publishing Ltd
Book Title
Faith, Rationality, and the Passions
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How to Cite
Coakley, S. (2012) Postscript: What (if Anything) can the Sciences Tell Philosophy and Theology about Faith, Rationality, and the Passions?, in Faith, Rationality, and the Passions (ed S. Coakley), John Wiley & Sons, Ltd, Chichester, UK. doi: 10.1002/9781118321997.ch17
Publication History
- Published Online: 16 AUG 2012
- Published Print: 10 SEP 2012
ISBN Information
Print ISBN: 9781444361933
Online ISBN: 9781118321997
- Summary
- Chapter
Keywords:
- postscript, the sciences on faith, rationality, and the passions;
- philosophy of mind, about the relation of mind and brain;
- philosophy of religion, its potential to new neuroscientific discoveries;
- substance dualism in a form attuned to modern evolutionary process;
- philosophy of mind without God;
- current resistance to forms of dualism;
- marble sculptures, as possessing a physical and aesthetic nature;
- the “nonderivative” dimension, the difficult part of the picture;
- second approach, being a form of emergentism;
- human capacities “emerge” from the physical, into that which transcends it