| Agents Under Fire: Materialism and the Rationality of Science Contributor(s): Menuge, Angus J. L. (Author), Ruse, Michael (Foreword by) |
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ISBN: 0742534049 ISBN-13: 9780742534049 Publisher: Rowman & Littlefield Publishers OUR PRICE: $81.18 Product Type: Hardcover Published: July 2004 Annotation: In Agents Under Fire, Menuge defends a robust notion of agency and intentionaility against eliminative and naturalistic alternatives, showing the interconnections between the philosophy of mind, theology, and Intelligent Design. |
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| BISAC Categories: - Religion | Religion & Science - Science | Life Sciences - Evolution |
| Dewey: 215 |
| LCCN: 2003020153 |
| Physical Information: 0.76" H x 6.42" W x 9.36" (1.06 lbs) 264 pages |
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| Publisher Description: In the first study of its kind, Agents Under Fire defends a robust notion of agency and intentionality against eliminative and naturalistic alternatives, showing the interconnections between the philosophy of mind, theology, and Intelligent Design. Menuge argues that Behe's irreducible complexity is a challenge to reductionism not only in biology, but also in psychology, and shows the inability of the Darwinian psychology proposed by Dawkins, Dennett, and Steven Pinker to explain the integration, unity, direction, and reliability of rational thought. This fascinating defense against scientific materialism is the only book-length study relating Intelligent Design to contemporary issues in the philosophy of mind. Drawing on his experience as both a philosopher and a computer scientist, Menuge deftly shows the reader that the materialist's attempts to rid science of all commitment to teleology can only result in incoherence, and presents instead his own unique argument for the legitimacy of Intelligent Design. |
Contributor Bio(s): Ruse, Michael: - Michael Ruse is the Lucyle T. Werkmeister Professor of Philosophy at Florida State University.As a prominent philosopher of science, he is well known for his work on the relationship between science and religion, the creation-evolution controversy and the demarcation problem within science. He has published over 25 books: most recently, Reflections on the Origin of Species, with David Reznick (Princeton UP, 2008); Science and Spirituality: Making Room for Faith in the Age of Science (Cambridge UP, 2010); and Atheism: What Everyone Needs to Know (Oxford UP, 2015). |