Life Responsibility versus Mechanical Reductionism: Western World-views of Nature from Pantheism to Positivism
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1. The modern Western idea of ‘the natural world’ 2. Other cosmological patterns 3. The Biblical view of the world 4. Ancient Greek science and philosophy 4.1. Organism and ‘Mechanism’ 4.2. Beings and Being 4.3. Cyclical Cosmology 4.4 Attitudes towards the Universe 5. The mediaeval world-view 6. The impact of the 'mechanistic' universe of Newtonian science 6.1. Reductionism 6.2. Direct Implications of Reductionism. 6.2.1. The Missing Third Realm 6.2.2. Quantification 6.2.3. Teleology and Functions 6.3. Indirect Implications 6.4. Reactions against the New View of Nature and its Alleged Implications 6.5. Positivism 7. The distinctiveness of life and some recent developments 7.1 Some Distinctive Features of Life 7.2. Prospects for more adequate Pictures of the World 7.3. Human Responsibility Today Glossary Bibliography Biographical Sketches
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تاریخ انتشار 2011