ON IAN HARBOUR'S ISSUES IN SCIENCE AND RELIGION |
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| Authors: | David Ray Griffin |
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| Affiliation: | David Ray Griffin is executive director of the Center for Process Studies and professor of philosophy of religion at the School of Theology at Claremont, California 91711, and founding president of the Center for a Post-Modern World in Santa Barbara. He is the editor of Physics and the Ultimate Significance of Time: Bohm, Prigogine, and Process Philosophy;(SUNY Press, 1986) and The Reenchantment of Science: Postmodern Proposals (SUNY Press, 1988), and is general editor of the SUNY Series in Constructive Postmodern Thought. |
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| Abstract: | Abstract. Although Ian Barbour endorses process organicism in Issues in Science and Religion , his rhetoric against vitalism and dualism makes his discussion of life, mind, and the part-whole relationship sound like relational emergentism and hence like a denial of process philosophy's nondualistic interactionism. Also his rhetoric against a God of the gaps seems to exclude the God-shaped hole in Alfred North Whitehead's philosophy. A more consistent articulation of Whitehead's postmodern position would lead to greater adequacy and consistency on these issues, and perhaps also to a more radically postmodern view of science—a view which Whitehead himself only sometimes suggested. |
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| Keywords: | emergence God-world relation mind-body relation postmodern science process philosophy science and theology |
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