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Author Gilbert, Robert (Fellow at Magdalen College), author.

Title Science and the truthfulness of beauty : how the personal perspective discovers creation / Robert Gilbert
Published London : Taylor and Francis, 2018

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Description 1 online resource : text file, PDF
Series Routledge science and religion series
Routledge science and religion series.
Contents Science and the Truthfulness of Beauty; Routledge Science and Religion Series; Title; Copyright; Contents; Preface and Acknowledgements; 1 Introduction: In the Eye of the Beholder; 2 Two Different Ways of Knowing?; How Scientists See Their Work; An Account of Modern Science; An End to Hypotheses?; The Realism of Scientific Insight; Scientific Method Versus Religious Method?; 3 Beauty Everywhere; Classification and Statistical Analysis; Symmetry; Mathematical Equations; Molecular Structure; The Interior of the Living Cell; Physiology; The Behaviour of Animals; 4 Playful Beauty
The Young Fox and The Fallow DeerScientists are Like Children at Play; Playing by the Rules; Imaginary Worlds: Hypotheses and Ideas; Playing Games: Experimental Process; Toys: Equipment and Infrastructure; The Fascination of Children; 5 Worldly, Natural and Real Beauty; Common Points of View: Cosmology, Geology and Evolution; Evolutionary Accounts of the Capacity to Perceive Beauty; Talking about Beauty; Faking It: Couldn't I Be Tricked into Thinking Something Beautiful?; But Isn't My Perception of Beauty Something I Get From my Culture?
Beauty and Science: Leaping from Subjectivity to ObjectivitySharing Our Understanding of Beauty in a Shared World; 6 Where does the Beauty Come From?; Why is There Anything Rather Than Nothing?; Scientific Language and the Precision of Our Knowledge; 7 Understanding Beauty; Beautiful, Moral Lives; Why does What We Say to Each Other Mean Anything at All?; Beauty: Creation and science at a Glance; 8 Loving Beauty; Appreciating the Beauty of Something Involves Being Moved by it; Understanding Truths about the World Requires us to Value it for Itself
Science Requires a Relationship to What We StudyWhen We do Science We Love the World; 9 Conclusion: Truthful beauty; Loving Knowledge of the World Requires a Personal Point of View; The Personal Point of View is Irreducible; Can We Make Sense of this?; The Beauty of the World and The Image of God; Bibliography; Index
Summary "When scientists describe their results or insights as 'beautiful', are they using the term differently from when they use it of a landscape, music or another person? Science and the Truthfulness of Beauty re-examines the way in which seeing beauty in the world plays the key role in scientific advances, and argues that the reliance on such a personal point of view is ultimately justified by belief that we are made in the 'image of God', as Christian and Jewish believers assert. It brings a fresh voice to the ongoing debate about faith and science, and suggests that scientists have as much explaining to do as believers when it comes to the ways they reach their conclusions."--Provided by publisher
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references and index
Notes Online resource; title from PDF title page (EBSCO, viewed August 24, 2017)
Subject Aesthetics.
Science -- Philosophy.
Science -- Aesthetics.
Religion and science.
Aesthetics -- Religious aspects.
Religion and Science
RELIGION -- General.
SCIENCE -- General.
PHILOSOPHY -- Metaphysics.
Aesthetics
Aesthetics -- Religious aspects
Religion and science
Science -- Aesthetics
Science -- Philosophy
Form Electronic book
ISBN 9781315607771
1315607778