Thought Experiments, Science, and Theology

✍ Scribed by Yiftach Fehige

Publisher: Brill
Year: 2023
Tongue: English
Leaves: 258
Series: Philosophical Studies in Science and Religion; 10
Category: Library

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✦ Table of Contents

Front Cover
Half Title
Series Information
Title Page
Copyright Page
Contents
Acknowledgments
Figures
Thought Experiments
Introduction
Chapter 1 The Practice of Thought Experiments
1 The Natural Sciences
2 Mathematics, History, and Philosophy
3 Science and Religion
4 Conclusion
Chapter 2 Two Hundred Years of Thought Experiments
1 From Kant to Mach
2 The Year 1986
3 The Pluralist Turn
4 A Nuanced Naturalism Is “True Enough”
5 Conclusion
Chapter 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
Chapter 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
Back Cover

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