Thought Experiments, Science, and Theology

Yiftach Fehige (Autor)

Buch | Hardcover

256 Seiten

2023
Brill (Verlag)
978-90-04-54033-0 (ISBN)

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This book offers the first study of theological thought experiments. It advances the discussion about the religious significance of the imagination and presents a tightly argued response to debates over pluralism in the history and philosophy of science.

Did Adam have a navel? Did Adam and Eve have sex? Is God merely a fictional character, like Superman? Without thought experiments like these, the field of science and religion would be severely impoverished. Thought experiments are exercises of the imagination. Like in many other disciplines, the imagination has not received the attention it deserves in theology. This book argues that the imagination must be taken seriously as an engine for progress. It offers a theology of the imagination that is consistent with, and goes beyond, existing discussions about pluralism at the intersection of science and religion.

Yiftach Fehige is a professor of science and religion at the University of Toronto's Institute for the History and Philosophy of Science and Technolgy in Canada.

Acknowledgments

List of Figures

List of Thought Experiments

Introduction

1 The Practice of Thought Experiments

1 The Natural Sciences

2 Mathematics, History, and Philosophy

3 Science and Religion

4 Conclusion

2 200 Years of Thought Experiments

1 From Kant to Mach

2 The Year of 1986

3 The Pluralist Turn

4 A Nuanced Naturalism Is “True Enough”

5 Conclusion

3 Quantum Physics, Sexuality, and the Trinity

1 Scientist-Theologian

2 Diversity in Transition

3 Toys of Thought

4 Sexed Bodies

5 Sexuality in a Pluralist Perspective

6 Jews and Christians

7 Conclusion

4 Beyond Plato’s Heaven

1 Heaven and Pluralism

2 The Thought Experiment of the Book of Job

3 An Inconceivable Unity in the Imagination

4 Conclusion

Conclusion

Bibliography

Index

Erscheinungsdatum	07.11.2023
Reihe/Serie	Philosophical Studies in Science and Religion ; 10
Verlagsort	Leiden
Sprache	englisch
Maße	155 x 235 mm
Themenwelt	Geisteswissenschaften ► Religion / Theologie
ISBN-10	90-04-54033-4 / 9004540334
ISBN-13	978-90-04-54033-0 / 9789004540330
Zustand	Neuware