Teilhard's Vision of the Past : : The Making of a Method / / Robert J. O'Connell.
The Phenomenon of Man, by Pierre Teilhard de Chardin, has been characterized as metaphysics, poetry, and mysticism-virtually everything except what its author claimed it was: a "purely scientific mémoir." Professor O'Connell here follows up on a nest of clues, uncovered first in an ea...
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Place / Publishing House: | New York, NY : : Fordham University Press, , [2022] ©1982 |
Year of Publication: | 2022 |
Language: | English |
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Table of Contents:
- Frontmatter
- Abbreviations
- Contents
- Introduction
- 1 "Seeing": Teilhard and the "New Positivism"
- 2 Seeing With an Educated Eye
- 3 Seeing "Wholes"
- 4 Science as History and Product of History
- 5 Science, "Hypothesis," and the Reality of Evolution
- 6 Entropy vs. Evolution
- 7 Toward a New Science of the Past
- 8 Crisis and Faith: In Evolution
- 9 The Phenomenon of Man: A Scientific Memoire
- 10 Toward Evaluating Teilhard's Vision of the Past: The Appropriate Questions
- Afterword
- Bibliography
- Index