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Similitude
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| Posted 8/22/2012 10:22 AM (GMT -6) |   | http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/ASIN/0199919755/discoveryinsti06//Mind-Cosmos-Materialist-Neo-Darwinian-Conception/dp/0199919755/
He doesn't think ID is the answer, but he's pretty sure the opposition is wrong. In this respect, he is like the agnostic David Berlinski.
There's only 4 main chapters. And 3 of them are:
3) Consciousness
4) Cognition
5) Value
The chapter on "Value" should be interesting. For at least 4 things are necessary for science to be a truth-oriented, human enterprise:
1) There must be a truly HUMAN set of values to render the enterprise HUMAN as opposed to individual (i.e., relativistic)
2) There must be truly HUMAN axioms and modes of inference to render the enterprise HUMAN as opposed to individual (i.e., relativistic)
3) The HUMAN axioms and modes of inference, when engaged in cognition, must be truth-approximating to render the enterprise truth-oriented
4) There must be HUMAN VALUE in knowing truth to render the enterprise self-correcting in terms of non-relativistic normativity (i.e., no value, no normativity; no normativity, no self-correction; no self-correction, no need for testability=epistemological infallibility or impossibility of truth approximation)
Benevolent/competent theism can satisfy these more parsimoniously than anything else I’ve ever heard about
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