Overview
- Brings together an international group of scholars to address the subject of human uniqueness from a range of academic disciplines
- Covers a rich variety of academic perspectives, from astronomy and paleontology to philosophy and theology
- Continues an established series of cutting-edge interdisciplinary studies from the European Society for the Study of Science and Theology
Part of the book series: Issues in Science and Religion: Publications of the European Society for the Study of Science and Theology (ESSSAT, volume 4)
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Table of contents (22 chapters)
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Front Matter
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Reflections on Cosmology
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Front Matter
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Reflections on Biology and Evolution
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Reflections on Anthropology, Technology and Culture
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Philosophical and Theological Reflections
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Keywords
- Anthropocentrism
- Anthropology and theology
- Artificial intelligence
- Artificial life
- Astrobiology
- Cognitive science and evolution
- Consciousness and religion
- Culture and ethics
- Darwinian evolution
- History of the universe
- Human distinctiveness
- Human uniqueness
- Image of God
- Jewish-Christian eschatology
- neo-Aristotelianism
- neo-Darwinism
- Synthetic xenobiology
- To be a human being
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Editors and Affiliations
About the editors
Michael Fuller has taught science and theology at the University of Edinburgh since 1998. He is the author of a monograph and numerous articles dealing with the interface of science and religion, and he has edited many symposia relating to this subject. He is Chair of the UK Science and Religion Forum, and Vice-President for Publications of the European Society for the Study of Science and Theology. He is an Anglican Priest, and for 15 years was Pantonian Professor at the Theological Institute of the Scottish Episcopal Church. His research interests include ethical issues raised by new and emerging sciences.
Dirk Evers is Professor of Dogmatics and Philosophy of Religion at Martin-Luther-University Halle-Wittenberg, Germany. Before joining Halle University in 2010 as a faculty member, he worked as assistant professor at Tübingen University under Eberhard Jüngel. Since his doctoral thesis on cosmology and doctrine of creation in 2000 he has been doing interdisciplinary work at the intersection of science and theology. Since 2014 he has been president of ESSSAT (European Society for the Study of Science and Theology), and he is managing editor of the journal Philosophy, Theology, and the Sciences.
Anne L.C. Runehov
-family: Helvetica, sans-serif;">has a Reader (Associate Professor) degree from Uppsala University. She earned a Doctoral degree in Philosophy of Religion at Uppsala University, and a Masters degree in Theoretical Philosophy, majoring in Philosophy of Mind, at the same university. Her latest monograph "The Human Being, the World and God" was published 2016 by Springer. She is the Editor in Chief of the 4 volume Encyclopaedia of Sciences and Religions, Springer 2013. She is co-editor for the volume: "Processes of Believing: The Acquisition, Maintenance, and Change in Creditions", Springer 2017. She was also Editor in Chief for the series Copenhagen University Discussions in Science and Religion, Faculty of Theology publications, Copenhagen until May 2014. She is also field editor for the European Journal of Science and Theology. Her first monograph "Sacred or Neural? The Potential of Neuroscience to Explain Religious Experiences" was published by Vandenhoeck & Ruprecht, 2007: it is based on her doctoral thesis, for which she received the 2006 ESSSAT research prize. Her main research interests lie on the interface of Philosophy of Religion, Philosophy of Mind and Neuroscience, i.e. neurophilosophy.
Knut-Willy Sæther is Professor at Department of Religious Studies, Volda University College, and NLA University College, Bergen, Norway. He received his doctoral degree from the Norwegian University of Technology and Science, Trondheim (2005) for a dissertation in theology and science. His main area of work is the philosophy of religion and he does interdisciplinary work including philosophy, theology, aesthetics and science.
He is currently Scientific Program Officer at European Society for the Studies in Science and Theology (ESSSAT). He has published several books.Bibliographic Information
Book Title: Issues in Science and Theology: Are We Special?
Book Subtitle: Human Uniqueness in Science and Theology
Editors: Michael Fuller, Dirk Evers, Anne Runehov, Knut-Willy Sæther
Series Title: Issues in Science and Religion: Publications of the European Society for the Study of Science and Theology
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-62124-1
Publisher: Springer Cham
eBook Packages: Religion and Philosophy, Philosophy and Religion (R0)
Copyright Information: Springer International Publishing AG 2017
Hardcover ISBN: 978-3-319-62123-4Published: 02 November 2017
Softcover ISBN: 978-3-319-87238-4Published: 28 August 2018
eBook ISBN: 978-3-319-62124-1Published: 23 October 2017
Series ISSN: 2364-5717
Series E-ISSN: 2364-5725
Edition Number: 1
Number of Pages: XV, 313
Number of Illustrations: 9 b/w illustrations
Topics: Philosophy of Religion, Anthropology, Philosophy of Mind