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ON IAN HARBOUR'S ISSUES IN SCIENCE AND RELIGION
Author(s) -
Griffin David Ray
Publication year - 1988
Publication title -
zygon®
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.222
H-Index - 23
eISSN - 1467-9744
pISSN - 0591-2385
DOI - 10.1111/j.1467-9744.1988.tb00618.x
Subject(s) - organicism , vitalism , dualism , epistemology , postmodernism , rhetoric , interactionism , philosophy , articulation (sociology) , sociology , denial , psychoanalysis , law , theology , psychology , political science , medicine , alternative medicine , pathology , politics
. Although Ian Barbour endorses process organicism in Issues in Science and Religion , his rhetoric against vitalism and dualism makes his discussion of life, mind, and the part‐whole relationship sound like relational emergentism and hence like a denial of process philosophy's nondualistic interactionism. Also his rhetoric against a God of the gaps seems to exclude the God‐shaped hole in Alfred North Whitehead's philosophy. A more consistent articulation of Whitehead's postmodern position would lead to greater adequacy and consistency on these issues, and perhaps also to a more radically postmodern view of science—a view which Whitehead himself only sometimes suggested.