11. Divine Action Topic: Astronomy
Formalism and Ontology in Early Astronomy."
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12. Divine Action Topic: Butterfield, Jeremy. Some Worlds of Quantum Theor...
a highly nonclassical ontology . He acknowledges the
enormous empirical success of quantum theory but notes that considerable
problems arise in reconciling it with special and general relativity , and he
argues strongly against reductionism.
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13. Divine Action Topic: Clayton, Philip. Tracing the Lines: Constraint an...
dEspagnats ontology, terming it
Spinozistic Monism. Here the state vector expresses properties of a deeper,
underlying reality which we can never describe in itself but which is
manifested in what we observe and which
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14. Divine Action Topic: Gilkey, Langdon. The God of Nature.
(history) leads to ontology or metaphysics - the effort to
understand the structure of being qua
being. This level of reflection is crucial for both the scientist and the
theologian. For the scientist it provides the rational
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15. Divine Action Topic: Happel, Stephen. Divine Providence and Instrument...
into an historical
ontology and a language of mutual mediation such that all levels of reality
have their relative autonomy. Contemporary science, with its analysis of
self-organizing systems, provides an understanding of the
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16. Divine Action Topic: Peacocke, Arthur. Biological Evolution - A Positi...
and a putative ontology .
Emergence, in turn, is Gods action as the continuous, ongoing, and immanent
Creator in and through the processes of nature.
The second feature is the mechanism of evolution. Although
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17. Divine Action Topic: Polkinghorne, John. The Metaphysics of Divine Act...
from epistemology to ontology , but the
strategy of critical realism is to maximize the connection. This leads most
physicists, he claims, to interpret Heisenberg s uncertainty principle as
implying an actual indeterminacy in
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18. Divine Action Topic: Polkinghorne, John. The Laws of Nature and the La...
epistemology models ontology ).
The reality thus known must
include the phenomena of mind-brain.
Polkinghorne admits that no solution to the mind-brain problem is
forthcoming, but hopes that his is a suggestive way of
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19. Divine Action Topic: Quantum Theory
Formalism and Ontology in Early Astronomy."
Murphy, Nancey.
Divine Action in the Natural Order: Buridans
Ass and Schrödingers Cat.
Murphy, Nancey.
Evidence of
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20. Itnerdisciplinary Topic: Atheology
of the soul. The tacit ontology of the
new psychology of emotions, as developed by Spencer, Bain, Darwin and,
ultimately, James in the 1850s-1880s was one in which there were only two real
psychical agencies - the evolutionary past and the
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