The Evolution of Rationality

How can science and religion move together toward a collegial future? J. Wentzel van Huyssteen has spent decades developing an interdisciplinary platform for the fruitful engagement of science and religion. Compiled to celebrate van Huyssteen's 65th birthday <I>The Evolution of Rationality</I> gathers a stellar roster of scholars in van Huyssteen's main areas of philosophy science and theology.<BR /><BR /> The contributors -- some of them Gifford lecturers and Templeton Prize winners -- offer significant new methodological and material proposals giving evidence of van Huyssteen's impact on the shape and texture of interdisciplinary conversation itself. Their essays are arranged in three parts:<BR />   <ul><BR /><BR /><BR />   <li>modern and postmodern philosophical challenges to our understanding of rationality</li><li>scientific evolutionary perspectives on the nature and development of human rationality in relation to religion</li><li>religious and theological explorations of the evolution of rationality</li></ul><BR /><BR /> However because the authors are all involved in interdisciplinary dialogue this philosophical-scientific-theological arrangement of chapters is not hard and fast. Virtually every essay engages issues that overlap all three fields forming an extremely rich blend of thought.<BR /><BR /> A creative interdisciplinary collection written by world-renowned philosophers scientists and theologians <I>The Evolution of Rationality</I> renders fitting tribute to pioneering scholar-mentor J. Wentzel van H u y s s t e en.<BR /><BR /><B>Contributors:</B><BR />   John Hedley Brooke<BR /> Delwin Brown<BR /> Philip Clayton<BR /> Jean Clottes<BR /> F. W. Dobbs-Allsopp<BR /> David Fergusson<BR /> Niels Henrik Gregersen<BR /> David Lewis-Williams<BR /> George Newlands<BR /> Richard Robert Osmer<BR /> Arthur Peacocke<BR /> Kenneth A. Reynhout<BR /> Holmes Rolston III<BR /> Michael Ruse<BR /> Calvin O. Schrag<BR /> F. LeRon Shults<BR /> Christopher Southgate<BR /> Michael L. Spezio<BR /> Mikael Stenmark<BR /> Jerome A. Stone<BR /> Ian Tattersall<BR /> Roger Trigg<BR /> Keith Ward<BR /> Wesley J. Wildman