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    書名/作者: Reshaping natural theology : seeing nature as creation // Mats Wahlberg.
    作者: Wahlberg, Mats.
    出版者: Houndmills, Basingstoke, Hampshire ; : Palgrave Macmillan,, 2012.
    面頁冊數: ix, 260 p. ;; 23 cm.
    標題: Nature - Religious aspects
    標題: Creation.
    標題: Creationism.
    標題: Natural theology.
    標題: RELIGION / Christian Theology / General
    ISBN: 9780230393141 (electronic bk.)
    ISBN: 0230393144 (electronic bk.)
    ISBN: 0230393136
    ISBN: 9780230393134
    書目註: Includes bibliographical references (p. 241-251).
    內容註: Acknowledgements -- Introduction -- Bursting Descartes' Bubble -- Perception and Concepts -- Perceptual Evidence -- Perceiving Other Minds -- Seeing Nature as Creation -- Possible Defeaters -- Unapologetic Theology -- Notes -- Bibliography -- Index --.
    摘要、提要註: Is nature creation or merely the product of non-intentional, natural processes? Mats Wahlberg argues that our perceptual experiences of nature can settle this question in favor of creation. He suggests that biological nature has expressive properties of a kind similar to human behavior and art. We may therefore be able to perceive b6 s directly b6 s nature as creation, i.e. as expressive of the mind of a creator. This idea resonates with the traditional Christian claim that God's invisible nature can be 'clearly perceived in the things that have been made' (Rom 1:20). Wahlberg's interpretation of this claim contradicts the common view that the existence of a creator must be established by inferential argument. The book's thesis is compatible with the fact that biological organisms have evolved by natural selection. Its viability depends, however, on the rejection of certain common assumptions about the nature of mind and perception b6 s assumptions that may properly be called 'Cartesian'. The author presents and defends an anti-Cartesian stance on mind and perception, inspired mainly by the work of the philosopher John McDowell. The philosophical resources provided by this stance are then drawn on to defend the book's version of natural theology.
    電子資源: An electronic book accessible through the World Wide Web; click for information
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