Hartshorne: A New World View

Hartshorne: A New World View
Author: Charles Hartshorne
Publisher: Lulu.com
Total Pages: 174
Release: 2007
Genre: Religion
ISBN: 0615148204

Charles Hartshorne is the Einstein of Religious thought.

God the Created

God the Created
Author: Benjamin J. Chicka
Publisher: State University of New York Press
Total Pages: 322
Release: 2022-02-01
Genre: Religion
ISBN: 1438487215

In God the Created, Benjamin Chicka develops a method of inquiry and program for theology that he labels "pragmatic constructive realism." While influenced most heavily by American pragmatism, especially that of Charles S. Peirce, Chicka’s method draws upon a variety of sources, ranging from Plato to Karl Popper, Paul Tillich, and the field of biosemiotics. Chicka presents pragmatic constructive realism as a means of moving past binary debates between realism and antirealism in both philosophy and theology, and its fruitfulness is displayed by examining the philosophical theologies of John Cobb and Robert Cummings Neville. The result of that engagement is a novel hypothesis about God that embraces legitimate criticisms of both process theology (Cobb) and ground-of-being theology (Neville) while integrating insights from both ways of thinking. God's transcendence and immanence, indeterminacy and determinacy are fully affirmed. The entire argument serves as an example of why a fallible and pluralistic form of theology, one that embraces and learns from difference instead of trying to eliminate it, is important for the future of theology.

Science and Religion in the Era of William James: Eclipse of certainty, 1820-1880

Science and Religion in the Era of William James: Eclipse of certainty, 1820-1880
Author: Paul Jerome Croce
Publisher: UNC Press Books
Total Pages: 394
Release: 1995
Genre: Social Science
ISBN: 9780807845066

In this cultural biography, Paul Croce investigates the contexts surrounding the early intellectual development of American philosopher William James (1842-1910). Croce places the young James at the center of key scientific and religious debates in Americ

Computing with Words in Information/Intelligent Systems 1

Computing with Words in Information/Intelligent Systems 1
Author: Lotfi A. Zadeh
Publisher: Physica
Total Pages: 523
Release: 2013-03-09
Genre: Computers
ISBN: 3790818739

These two volumes consIstmg of Foundations and Applications provide the current status of theoretical and empirical developments in "computing with words". In philosophy, the twentieth century is said to be the century of language. This is mainly due to Wittgenstein who said: "The meaning of a word is its use in the language game". "The concept game is a concept with blurred edges". In the first phrase, "the language game" implies the everyday human activity with language, and in the latter, "game" simply implies an ordinary word. Thus, Wittgenstein precisely stated that a word is fuzzy in real life. Unfortunately this idea about a word was not accepted in the conventional science. We had to wait for Zadeh's fuzzy sets theory. Remembering Wittgenstein's statement, we should consider, on the one hand, the concept of "computing with words" from a philosophical point of view. It deeply relates to the everyday use of a word in which the meaning of a word is fuzzy in its nature.