On Ian Harbour's Issues in Science and Religion

Abstract. Although Ian Barbour endorses process organicism in Issues in Science and Religion, his rhetoric against vitalism and dualism makes his discussion of life, mind, and the part-whole relationship sound like relational emergentism and hence like a denial of process philosophy's nondualis...

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Main Author: Griffin, David Ray 1939- (Author)
Format: Electronic Review
Language:English
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Published: Open Library of Humanities$s2024- 1988
In: Zygon
Year: 1988, Volume: 23, Issue: 1, Pages: 57-81
Further subjects:B God-world relation
B Book review
B postmodern science
B Process Philosophy
B Emergence
B mind-body relation
B science and theology
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Summary:Abstract. Although Ian Barbour endorses process organicism in Issues in Science and Religion, his rhetoric against vitalism and dualism makes his discussion of life, mind, and the part-whole relationship sound like relational emergentism and hence like a denial of process philosophy's nondualistic interactionism. Also his rhetoric against a God of the gaps seems to exclude the God-shaped hole in Alfred North Whitehead's philosophy. A more consistent articulation of Whitehead's postmodern position would lead to greater adequacy and consistency on these issues, and perhaps also to a more radically postmodern view of science—a view which Whitehead himself only sometimes suggested.
ISSN:1467-9744
Contains:Enthalten in: Zygon
Persistent identifiers:DOI: 10.1111/j.1467-9744.1988.tb00618.x