Rowman & Littlefield Publishers
Pages: 264
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Trim: 6½ x 9
978-0-7425-3404-9 • Hardback • July 2004 • $82.00 • (£63.00)
Angus Menuge is associate professor of philosophy and associate director of the Cranach Institute at Concordia University Wisconsin. He holds a B.A. in philosophy from the University of Warwick, an M.A. and a Ph.D. in philosophy from the University of Wisconsin-Madison, and a DCA in Christian Apologetics from the International Academy of Apologetics, Evangelism, and Human Rights. Dr. Menuge is editor of three books, C. S. Lewis: Lightbearer in the Shadowlands (Crossway Books, 1997), Christ and Culture in Dialogue (Concordia Publishing House, 1999) and Reading God's World: The Vocation of Scientist (Concordia Publishing House, forthcoming).
Chapter 1 Foreword
Chapter 2 Preface
Chapter 3 Skyhooks and Cranes: The Challenge of Reductionism
Chapter 4 Strong Agent Reductionism: Materialism and the Rationality of Science
Chapter 5 Weak Agent Reductionism: Science and the Rationality of Materialism
Chapter 6 Bait and Switch: Indirectness and Biological Unity
Chapter 7 The Alchemy of the Mind: Indirectness and Psychological Unity
Chapter 8 Beyond Skinnerian Creatures: A Defense of the Lewis-Plantinga Argument Against Evolutionary Naturalism
Chapter 9 Intentionality, Information and Displacement: The Legitimacy of Design
Chapter 10 Science and Christianity: Dogmatism and Dialogue
Chapter 11 Index
Chapter 12 About the Author
This book moves sharply against the grain of the naturalism and the materialism that dominate contemporary philosophy. It boldly portrays the world as laced with purpose, not just human purpose but divine purpose too. All readers can attend to this adventurous portrayal with very good purpose.
— Keith Moser
With marvelous clarity and wit, Angus Menuge lays bare the philosophical incoherence of materialism. He clears the fog to show that the universe contains not only matter and energy; it contains agents.
— Michael Behe, professor of biochemistry, Lehigh University
Philosophical naturalism is frequently advocated as the only doctrine that a scientifically informed intellectual of our time can possibly consider. Angus Menuge has shown, however, that a wide range of powerful considerations can be brought forward against this philosophy. Menuge provides a close examination of leading naturalists such as Dawkins, Dennett, and Churchland, and draws upon a wide range of critics from C. S. Lewis to Michael Behe, to provide what is arguably the most comprehensive critique of naturalism yet to appear. A must-read for naturalists and for their opponents.
— Victor Reppert, author of C. S. Lewis's Dangerous Idea
In this wonderfully insightful book, Angus Menuge details how intelligent design is systematically dismantling materialism's scientific and philosophical underpinnings. Though for now materialism persists as academic orthodoxy, Menuge's withering attack against it in this book signals a coming sea of change.
— William Dembski, author of No Free Lunch and The Design Revolution
With marvelous clarity and wit, Angus Menuge lays bare the philosophical incoherence of materialism. He clears the fog to show that the universe contains not only matter and energy; it contains agents.
— Michael Behe, professor of biochemistry, Lehigh University