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  7. [12] December 7 - Cosmology and liberal theology

    [12] December 7 - Cosmology and liberal theology

    • [12] December 7 - Cosmology and liberal theology

      [12] December 7 - Cosmology and liberal theology

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      Excursus: The Anthropic Principle. The encyclical "Faith and reason." (GyG)

      Assigned reading:

      Arthur S. Eddington, The Nature of the Physical World (1928). [Within your limited time constraints, page through the book to get an impression of his topical concerns, linger a bit on the chapter "Man's place in the universe," and then concentrate especially on the chapter "Science and mysticism."] (Hungarian review)

      Matthew Stanley, "Religion in modern life: Science, philosophy, and liberal theology in interwar Britain," in Practical Mystic: Religion, Science, and A. S. Eddington (2007), 194-237. 

      Further reading:

      Ernan McMullin, "Religion and cosmology," Encyclopedia of Cosmology: Historical, Philosophical, and Scientific Foundations of Modern Cosmology, ed. Norriss S. Hetherington (1993), 579-595. 

      Helge Kragh, "Religion, politics, and the universe," in Cosmology and Controversy: The Historical Development of Two Theories of the Universe (1996), 251-268.

      Thomas Ryckman, "'A believing rationalist': Einstein and 'the truly valuable' in Kant," The Cambridge Companion to Einstein, eds. Michel Janssen and Christoph Lehner (2014), 377-397.

      Robert Smith, The Expanding Universe: Astronomy's 'Great Debate' 1900-1931 (1982).

      Loren R. Graham, "Cosmology and cosmogony," Science, Philosophy, and Human Behavior in the Soviet Union (1987), 380-427.


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      • Kragh Cosmology and Controversy Single File Uploaded 6/12/20, 20:31
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      • [1] September 21 - The conflict thesis
      • [2] September 28 - The Greek cosmos. From mythos to logos.
      • [3] October 5 - Plato, Aristotle, and the others
      • [4] October 12 - Christian views of Hellenistic natural philosophy
      • [5] October 19 - Medieval natural history and natural philosophy: Tradition and transformation
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      • [7] November 2 - What was at stake in the Copernican revolution?
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