The Reenchantment of Science

<p><b>Describes the move from modern mechanistic science to a post-modern organismic science.</b></p><p>This book describes the move from modern mechanistic science to a post-modern organismic science. David Ray Griffin gives voice to a revisionary postmodernism based on the work of Whitehead and Hartshorne that contrasts with the relativistic nihilistic postmodernism of Heidegger Derrida and Wittgenstein. The book brings together some of today's most creative thinking about science.</p><p>Griffin's introductory essay summarizes the way in which the mechanistic view led to the disenchantment of science and the various reasons for the reversal of this process in our time. The essays on physics cosmology biology ecology psychosomatic medicine and parapsychology bring out the various dimensions of the reenchantment of science: the replacement of modern dualism and reductionism with an ecological organismic paradigm; the priority of internal relations to external; the casal power of experience; the presence of experience purpose and intrinsic value throughout nature; influence at a distance; the laws of nature as habits; the presence of a divine whole in all the parts; and the history of the universe as a self-creative meaningful story. This book gives a powerful voice to this emerging movement's proposals for a postmodern science spirituality and world order.</p>