ebook Epistemology of miracle. Scientific inexplicability, religious sense and system approach towards the epistemology of miracle Adam Świeżyński

Wydawca: Wydawnictwo Naukowe UKSW

Rok wydania: 2012

Publikacja próbująca wyjaśnić naukową niezrozumiałość, zmysł religijny i podejście systemowe kierunku epistemologii cudu.

Spis treści ebooka Epistemology of miracle. Scientific inexplicability, religious sense and system approach towards the epistemology of miracle

INTRODUCTION 9

PART ONE: THE QUESTION OF SCIENTIFIC INEXPLICABILITY OF MIRACULOUS EVENT 27
INTRODUCTION 27
CHAPTER 1: EXPLAINING WITHIN NATURAL SCIENCES AND THE LAWS OF SCIENCE 31
1.1. INTRODUCTION 31
1.2. EXPLAINING THE EVENTS THROUGH THE REFERENCE TO LAWS OF SCIENCE 33
1.3. THE DESCRIPTION AND TYPES OF SCIENTIFIC LAWS 41
1.4. SIMPLIFIED AND APPROXIMATE CHARACTER OF SCIENTIFIC LAWS 47

CHAPTER 2: SCIENTIFIC INEXPLICABILITY OF THE EVENT 53
2.1. INTRODUCTION 53
2.2. SCIENTIFIC INEXPLICABILITY AS THE CONSEQUENCE OF THE SUPERNATURAL CHARACTER OF EVENT 55
2.3. EPISTEMOLOGICAL AND METHODOLOGICAL CONDITIONS OF SCIENTIFIC INEXPLICABILITY OF EVENT 58

CHAPTER 3: THE THEOREM ABOUT THE SCIENTIFIC INEXPLICABILITY OF A MIRACULOUS EVENT 63
3.1. INTRODUCTION 63
3.2. ACCEPTING GOD’S ACTION AS A SOURCE OF THE CLAIM ON SCIENTIFIC INEXPLICABILITY OF MIRACULOUS EVENT 64
3.3. THE PROPOSAL OF MODIFYING THE THEOREM ABOUT SCIENTIFIC INEXPLICABILITY
OF MIRACULOUS EVENT 75

PART TWO: THE SENSE OF MIRACULOUS EVENT 87
INTRODUCTION 87
CHAPTER 4: CLARIFICATION OF THE TERM ‘SENSE OF MIRACULOUS EVENT’ 89
4.2. NON-RELIGIOUS SENSE OF MIRACULOUS EVENT 94
4.3. RELIGIOUS SENSE OF MIRACULOUS EVENT 101

CHAPTER 5: THE PROCESS OF DETERMINING RELIGIOUS SENSE OF MIRACULOUS EVENT 113
5.1. INTRODUCTION 113
5.2. PERSPECTIVES OF RELIGIOUS RECOGNITION OF MIRACLE 115
5.3. THE WAY OF DETERMINING THE RELIGIOUS SENSE OF MIRACULOUS EVENT 131

PART THREE: THE SYSTEM APPROACH TOWARDS THE EPISTEMOLOGY OF MIRACLE 147
INTRODUCTION 147
CHAPTER 6: THE ASSUMPTIONS OF SYSTEM EPISTEMOLOGY OF MIRACLE 151
6.1. INTRODUCTION 151
6.2. THE NOTION OF INCULTURATION OF MIRACULOUS EVENT 151
6.3. SCIENTIFIC NON-INCULTURATION 156
6.4. THEOLOGICAL INCULTURATION 158

CHAPTER 7: THE CHARACTERISTICS OF SYSTEM EPISTEMOLOGY OF MIRACLE 161
7.1. INTRODUCTION 161
7.2. NATURAL SCIENTIFIC KNOWLEDGE AND THEOLOGICAL INTERPRETATION AS THE SYSTEMS OF OBTAINING KNOWLEDGE ABOUT MIRACULOUS EVENT 162
7.3. RATIONALITY AS THE COMMON ENVIRONMENT OF THE NATURAL SCIENTIFIC KNOWLEDGE SYSTEM AND THEOLOGICAL INTERPRETATION SYSTEM 165

CHAPTER 8: THE CONSEQUENCES OF SYSTEM APPROACH TOWARDS THE EPISTEMOLOGY OF MIRACLE 175
8.1. INTRODUCTION 175
8.2. SERIES AND PARALLEL JOINS WITHIN THE SYSTEM EPISTEMOLOGY OF MIRACLE 176
8.3. FEEDBACKS AND SELF-JOINS IN THE SYSTEM EPISTEMOLOGY OF MIRACLE 179

CONCLUSION 187
BIBLIOGRAPHY 191
ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS 201