自然、意匠と科学 Nature, Design, and Science : The Status of Design in Natural Science (Suny series in Philosophy and Biology)

Ratzsch, Del

State University of New York Press（2001/03発売）

• 製本 Paperback:紙装版/ペーパーバック版／ページ数 230 p.
• 言語 ENG
• 商品コード 9780791448946
• DDC分類 215

基本説明

Explores the question of whether or not concepts and principles involving supernatural intelligent design can occupy any legitimate place within sicence.

Full Description

Explores the question of whether or not concepts and principles involving supernatural intelligent design can occupy any legitimate place within science.

Although the scientific illegitimacy of supernatural design is typically asserted with enormous confidence and vigor, there has been surprisingly little actual work on such key foundational issues as even what design is and on specific criteria for assessing its legitimacy, or lack, as a scientific concept. However, intelligent supernatural design is again surfacing in discussions both of anthropic principles and of certain types of biological complexity. This book develops a definition of design, explicates the more specific concept of supernatural design, defends a general criterion for scientific legitimacy, and argues that in some cases the concept of intelligent supernatural design can meet the relevant requirements for scientific legitimacy.

Contents

Preface

Introduction


I DESIGN BASICS




1. Design Preliminaries
2. Science and Finite Design


II SUPERNATURAL DESIGN


3. Supernatural Design: Preliminary Basics
4. Identifying Supernatural Design: Primary Marks
5. Identifying Supernatural Design: Secondary Marks
6. Designs in Nature


III BOUNDARIES OF SCIENTIFIC LEGITIMACY


7. Beyond the Empirical
8. The Legitimacy Criterion


IV THE PERMISSIBILITY QUESTION


9. Cases for Impermissibility
10. Legitimacy
11. Are There Any Payoffs?
12. Conclusion


Appendix


Dembski's Design Inference


Notes


Bibliography


Index