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29The Catholic Church and Evolutionary Theory : A Conflict ModelIn Werner Arber, Nicola Cabibbo & Marcelo Sánchez-Sorondo (eds.), Pontificiae Academiae Acta Vol. 20, Pontifical Academy of Sciences. pp. 450-475. 2009.The arrticle deals with the ambivalent attitude of Church authorities towards evolutionary theory.
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53Hans Jonas’ Philosophical BiologyGraduate Faculty Philosophy Journal 23 (1): 85-98. 2001.Jonas' philosophical biology is an attempt to overcome the dualism, i.e., the alienation between man and world, which characterizes both Gnostic thinking and the Heiddegerian existentialist approach that Jonas had applied in its interpretation. This dualism leads both approaches to despise or, at least, to neglect nature.Jonas' philosophical biology is intended to provide an insight into the phenomenon of life that is more than a mere reflection of scientific epistemology. Rather, it regards …Read more
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7Concepts, Theories, and Rationality in the Biological Sciences: The Second Pittsburgh-Konstanz Colloquium in the Philosophy of Science, University of Pittsburgh, October 1-4, 1993 (edited book, review)University of Piuttsburgh Press/Universitätsverlag Konstanz. 1995.Leading biologists and philosophers of biology discuss the basic theories and concepts of biology and their connections with ethics, economics, and psychology, providing a remarkably unified report on the “state of the art” in the philosophy of biology.
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76Interpretation: Ways of Thinking About the Sciences and the Arts (edited book)University of Pittsburgh Press. 2010.The act of interpretation occurs in nearly every area of the arts and sciences. That ubiquity serves as the inspiration for the fourteen essays of this volume, covering many of the domains in which interpretive practices are found. Individual topics include: the general nature of interpretation and its forms; comparing and contrasting interpretation and hermeneutics; culture as interpretation seen through Hegel’s aesthetics; interpreting philosophical texts; methodologies for interpreting human …Read more
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141This booklet deals in the form of "impromptus" with philosophy and philosophers in the "Third Reich" and the interesting story of post-war German philosophy to just ignore this topic.
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136O Happy Error. A Comment on Giora HonBoston Studies in the Philosophy of Science 232 295-300. 2003.This is a comment on Giora Hon's paper on scientific error
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908Gentechnik: ethische und andere ProblemeEthik Und Sozialwissenschaften 2 (4): 626. 1991.This paper discusses ethical problems of genetic engineering.
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180Ambivalence and Conflict: Catholic Church and EvolutionIn Werner Arber, Nicola Cabibbo & Marcelo Sánchez Sorondo (eds.), Pntifical Academy of Sciences, Acta 20, Pontifical Academy of Sciences. pp. 450-475. 2009.Somewhat traumatized by the Galileo Affair the Church until recently showed low profile in the conflicts with science, evolutionary theory included. The talk presents a categorization of possible relationships between science and religion by distinguishing between "Galilean conflicts", which are about mutually exclusive statements about matters of fact, and Freudian conflicts where an empirical science tries to explain away religion as a phenomenon in its own right. In the light of this distinct…Read more
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