Tag: teleology
ID Meeting in Israel — Next Year in Jerusalem?
This was a remarkably cross-disciplinary dialogue among physicists, chemists, biologists, neuroscientists, machine learning researchers, as well as philosophers and historians of science.
Biology Textbooks and the “God-Talk” Problem
A muddle emerges from textbooks’ unprincipled use of theology.
Edward Feser on Aristotle’s Revenge — Purpose and Essence in Nature
Scientists can get along without Aristotle’s metaphysics, says Feser, but science can’t.
Austrian Village Meets Biocomplexity and Teleology and Doesn’t Blink
The accompanying photos show our field trip to Altenburg Abbey. The ceiling painting was of the sciences. You can see a telescope and astrolabe in the close up.
Why a New Center on Teleology in Nature?
Clearly a naturalistic bias is at work here and imposes a limit on the spectrum of alternative explanations that is even considered to be permissible.