1st Edition
Anglo-american Postmodernity Philosophical Perspectives On Science, Religion, And Ethics
By Nancey Murphy
Copyright 1997
240 Pages
by
Routledge
242 Pages
by
Routledge
240 Pages
by
Routledge
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The term 'postmodern' is generally used to refer to current work in philosophy, literary criticism, and feminist thought inspired by Continental thinkers such as Friedrich Nietzsche and Jacques Derrida. In this book, Nancey Murphy appropriates the term to describe emerging patterns in Anglo-American thought and to indicate their radical break from the thought patterns of Enlightened modernity. The... Read more
Introduction -- Anglo-American Postmodernity -- Philosophy of Science -- Scientific Realism and Postmodern Philosophy -- Postmodern Antirelativism -- Postmodern Proliferation and Progress in Science -- Philosophy of Religion -- Beyond Modern Liberalism and Fundamentalism -- Philosophical Resources for Postmodern Conservative Theology -- Postmodern Philosophy of Language and Textual Relativism -- Science, Religion, and Ethics -- Theology and Postmodern Philosophy of Science -- Theology and Ethics in the Hierarchy of the Sciences -- Supervenience and the Nonreducibility of Ethics to Biology -- Postscript
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Nancey Murphy
