Nature, Truth, and Value

Exploring the Thinking of Frederick FerrZ
Herausgeber: Allan, George; Allshouse, Merle F.

• Gebundenes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

In this thorough compendium, nineteen accomplished scholars explore, in some manner the values they find inherent in the world, their nature, and revelence through the thought of Frederick Ferré. These essays, informed by the insights of Ferré and coming from manifold perspectives-ethics, philosophy, theology, and environmental studies, advance an ambitious challenge to current intellectual and scholarly fashions.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Lexington Books
• Seitenzahl: 382
• Erscheinungstermin: 7. September 2005
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 235mm x 157mm x 27mm
• Gewicht: 769g
• ISBN-13: 9780739111703
• ISBN-10: 0739111701
• Artikelnr.: 21157547

Autorenporträt

George Allan's work as a writer includes articles for several Canadian magazines, stage plays, and television writing, including situation comedies, and dramas for the Canadian Broadcasting Corporation. He is a charter member of the Writers Guild of Canada. No Ending is Allan's debut novel. Researching the book, he spent time on the street with detective units and uniformed law enforcement personnel in Toronto and Vancouver. Allan lives in Southern Ontario with his wife, Katherine....

Inhaltsangabe

Chapter 1 Introduction
Chapter 2 On the Soul
Chapter 3 Ferré's Postmodern Metaphysical Support for the Soul
Chapter 4 Explorations in Personalistic Organicism
Chapter 5 Human Reality and The Form of the Good
Chapter 6 The Emergentist Alternative: A Critique of Pansubjectivism
Chapter 7 Philosophy of Religion After Postmodernism
Chapter 8 The Process of Wisdom: Understanding the Contours of Ferré's
Being and Value
Chapter 9 Frederick Ferré's Epistemic Norms Interpret Evolution
Chapter 10 Metaphor and the Limits of Language
Chapter 11 Is Ecology a Postmodern Science?
Chapter 12 Ferré's Organismic Theory of Natural Values
Chapter 13 Value in Nature: The Contribution of Frederick Ferré to
Environmental Philosophy
Chapter 14 Theism and the Crisis in Moral Theory: Rethinking Modern
Autonomy
Chapter 15 God Revisited
Chapter 16 Ferré Without God: A Shift to a Neo-Whiteheadian Humanistic
Naturalism
Chapter 17 A Lamp to Our Doubts: Ferré, Hartshorne, and Theistic Arguments
Chapter 18 Metascience, Technique and Radiobiology: Using a Contemporary
Case to Investigate Ferré's Account of "Technolatry"
Chapter 19 Frederick Ferré and Pragmatist Activism
Chapter 20 Global Enviormental Givernance: Why We Need a World Environment
Organization
Chapter 21 On Listening
Chapter 22 A Brief Ode to an Intellectual Otter
Chapter 23 Frederick Ferré as Mensch: The Personal Side(s) of an Active
Scholar
Chapter 24 Biographical Essay