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Facets of Faith and Science: Vol. II: The Role of Beliefs in Mathematics and the Natural Sciences

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Full Title:

Facets of Faith and Science: Vol. II: The Role of Beliefs in Mathematics and the Natural Sciences

Contributors:

By (Author) Jitse Van Der Meer

ISBN:

9780819199898

Publisher:

University Press of America

Imprint:

University Press of America

Publication Date:

5th December 1996

Country:

United States

Classifications

Readership:

General

Fiction/Non-fiction:

Non Fiction

Other Subjects:

Philosophy of science
Philosophy: metaphysics and ontology

Dewey:

501

Physical Properties

Physical Format:

Paperback

Number of Pages:

350

Dimensions:

Width 150mm, Height 229mm, Spine 29mm

Weight:

562g

Description

This second volume of Facets of Faith and Science focuses on the effects religious and metaphysical beliefs have on the content of the specific roles of metaphysical and religious beliefs in explanation and theory construction in biology, mathematics and physics.
Co-published with The Pascal Centre for Advanced Studies in Faith and Science.

Reviews

The sixty essays in this wide-ranging collection illustrate how intellectually exciting the borderland between religion and the natural sciences, for a time almost abandoned, has once again become. -- Ernan McMullin, University of Notre Dame
The sixty essays in this wide-ranging collection illustrate how intellectually exciting the borderland between religion and the natural sciences, for a time almost abandoned, has once again become. -- Ernan McMullin, University of Notre Dame

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