Conjunctive Explanations in Science and Religion

This book explores the relationship between scientific and religious explanations, addressing topics such as Darwinian and teleological explanations, non-reductive explanations of mind and consciousness, and Christian faith and religious experience. It aims to provide conceptual clarity on how these explanations might work together and explore their relevance to science and religion.

Format: Hardback
Length: 336 pages
Publication date: 28 February 2023
Publisher: Taylor & Francis Ltd

This comprehensive book delves into the intricate realm of conjunctive explanations, exploring their nature and significance within the context of science and religion. It examines the relationship between scientific and religious explanations for the world's features and phenomena, seeking to understand how they can coexist and potentially enrich each other. The book comprises a series of chapters that address diverse topics, such as the compatibility between Darwinian and teleological explanations, non-reductive explanations of mind and consciousness, and the exploration of Christian faith and religious experience. Additionally, other chapters delve into theological and philosophical issues surrounding the nature and feasibility of conjunctive explanations. Through its insightful contributions, the book aims to provide conceptual clarity on the potential for scientific and religious explanations to work together conjunctively, as well as shedding light on how these ideas relate to various scientific and religious disciplines. This exploration is essential in understanding the complex interplay between science, religion, and human understanding of the world.

The book investigates the nature and relevance of conjunctive explanations in the context of science and religion. It explores questions concerning how scientific and religious explanations for features of the world or phenomena within it relate to each other and whether they might work together in mutually enriching ways.

The chapters address topics including the relationship between Darwinian and teleological explanations, non-reductive explanations of mind and consciousness, and explanations of Christian faith and religious experience, while others explore theological and philosophical issues concerning the nature and feasibility of conjunctive explanations.

Overall, the contributions help to provide conceptual clarity on how scientific and religious explanations might or might not work together conjunctively as well as exploring how these ideas relate to specific topics in science and religion more generally.

Weight: 800g
Dimension: 234 x 156 (mm)
ISBN-13: 9781032139685