Gregg Caruso: SCIENCE AND RELIGION: 5 QUESTIONS

[Alex]

SCIENCE AND RELIGION: 5 QUESTIONS--a collection of interviews with some of the world's leading philosophers, scientists, theologians, apologists, and atheists
by Gregg Caruso

UUHK received an email (see below) from the author concerning this book project.  It seems to be a most interesting and promising book.
Alex

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I am currently working on a new book project that may be of interest to your members: SCIENCE AND RELIGION: 5 QUESTIONS--a collection of interviews with some of the world's leading philosophers, scientists, theologians, apologists, and atheists. The book will not be published until mid-2014 but I just set up a Facebook page for it. I will occasionally post updates, articles of interest, videos, and debates involving the contributors on the Facebook page. I'm sure it will be of interest to your members since contributors include the "World's Top Thinker" (Prospect Magazine, 2013), a Nobel Prize winning physicist, three "Humanist of the Year" winners, three Templeton Prize winners, the "Most Influential Rabbi in America" (Newsweek, 2012), a National Humanities Medal Winner, a National Medal of Science Winner, a Star of South Africa Medal winner, a Carl Sagan Award for Public Understanding of Science winner, and many more! I welcome your members to participate and comment on various posts.

Here is a link to the Facebook page (please click "like"):
http://www.facebook.com/scienceandreligion5questions

A full list of contributors and additional info about the book can be found at:
http://www.scienceandreligion5questions.com 

Dr. Gregg Caruso

[Alex]

Science and Religion: 5 Questions
A collection of interviews with some of the world's leading philosophers, scientists, theologians, apologists, and atheists
Edited by: Gregg D. Caruso
2014
http://www.scienceandreligion5questions.com

Are science and religion compatible when it comes to understanding cosmology (the origin of the universe), biology (the origin of life and of the human species), ethics, and the human mind (minds, brains, souls, and free will)?

Do science and religion occupy non-overlapping magisteria? Is Intelligent Design a scientific theory?

How do the various faith traditions view the relationship between science and religion?

What, if any, are the limits of scientific explanation?

What are the most important open questions, problems, or challenges confronting the relationship between science and religion, and what are the prospects for progress?

These and other questions are explored in Science and Religion: 5 Questions—a collection of thirty-three interviews based on 5 questions presented to some of the world's most influential and prominent philosophers, scientists, theologians, apologists, and atheists.



Gregg D. Caruso
http://www.greggcaruso.com

Dr. Caruso's research interests include philosophy of mind, cognitive science, and metaphysics, with a particular interest in consciousness and free will. His most recent work focuses on the problem of free will and the phenomenology of freedom. In particular, he argues that our subjective feeling of freedom, as reflected in the first-person phenomenology of agentive experience, is an illusion created by certain aspects of our consciousness. His broader work engages issues at the intersection of the behavioral, cognitive, and neurosciences. He is especially interested in theoretical accounts of consciousness and what recent developments in the behavioral, cognitive, and neurosciences can tell us about human agency and free will. He is also interested in exploring the implications of free will skepticism for ourselves, society, morality, meaning, and the law. In particular, he is an optimistic skeptic and disillusionist maintaining that, not only can we preserve meaning, morals, and purpose without belief in free will and desert-based moral responsibility, but that we would be better off without such beliefs.