科学界の託宣者たち：セレブ科学者対神・宗教 Oracles of Science : Celebrity Scientists versus God and Religion

Giberson, Karl/ Artigas, Mariano

Oxford University Press Inc（2007/01発売）

• 製本 Hardcover:ハードカバー版／ページ数 288 p.
• 言語 ENG
• 商品コード 9780195310726
• DDC分類 500

基本説明

Biologists Stephen Jay Gould, Richard Dawkins, and Edwared O. Wilson, and physicists Carl Sagan, Stephen Hawking, and Steven Weinberg, are predominantly secular in ways that don't reflect the distribution of religious beliefs within the scientific community. The authors offer an informed analysis of the views of these six scientists, carefully distinguishing science from philosophy and religion in the writings of the oracles.

Full Description

Biologists Stephen Jay Gould, Richard Dawkins, and Edward O. Wilson, and physicists Carl Sagan, Stephen Hawking, and Steven Weinberg have become public intellectuals, articulating a much larger vision for science and what role it should play in the modern worldview. The scientific prestige and literary eloquence of each of these great thinkers combine to transform them into what can only be called oracles of science. Curiously, the leading "oracles of science" are
predominantly secular in ways that don't reflect the distribution of religious beliefs within the scientific community. Many of them are even hostile to religion, creating a false impression that
science as a whole is incompatible with religion. Karl Giberson and Mariano Artigas offer an informed analysis of the views of these six scientists, carefully distinguishing science from philosophy and religion in the writings of the oracles.

Contents

INTRODUCTION: ORACLES OF SCIENCE; CONCLUSION: SCIENCE AND BEYOND