McLeish, Tom orcid.org/0000-0002-2025-0299 (2021) The re-discovery of contemplation through science:with Tom McLeish, “The Re-Discovery of Contemplation through Science: Boyle Lecture 2021”; Rowan Williams, “The Re-Discovery of Contemplation through Science: A Response to Tom McLeish”; Fraser Watts, “Discussion of the Boyle Lecture 2021”; and Tom McLeish, “Response to Boyle Lecture 2021 Panel and Participant Discussion.”. Zygon. ISSN 1467-9744
Abstract
Some of the early-modern changes in the social framing of science, while often believed to be essential, are shown to be contingent. They contribute to the flawed public narrative around science today, and especially to the misconceptions around science and religion. Four are examined in detail, each of which contributes to the demise of the contemplative stance that science both requires and offers. They are: (1) a turn from an immersed subject to the pretense of a pure objectivity, (2) a turn from imagination as a legitimate pathway to knowledge, (3) a turn from shared and participative science to a restricted professionalism, and (4) an overprosaic reading of the metaphor of the “Book of Nature.” All four, but especially the imperative to consider reading nature as poetry, and a deeper examination of the entanglements between poetry and theoretical science, draw unavoidably on theological ideas, and contribute to a developing “theology of science.”.
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Item Type: | Article |
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Copyright, Publisher and Additional Information: | © 2021 The Authors. Zygon® published by Wiley Periodicals LLC on behalf of Joint Publication Board of Zygon |
Keywords: | citizen science,contemplation,history of science,science and poetry,theology of science |
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Institution: | The University of York |
Academic Units: | The University of York > Faculty of Sciences (York) > Physics (York) |
Depositing User: | Pure (York) |
Date Deposited: | 14 Jul 2021 11:00 |
Last Modified: | 16 Oct 2024 17:42 |
Published Version: | https://doi.org/10.1111/zygo.12719 |
Status: | Published |
Refereed: | Yes |
Identification Number: | 10.1111/zygo.12719 |
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Open Archives Initiative ID (OAI ID): | oai:eprints.whiterose.ac.uk:176155 |