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The Penultimate Curiosity: How Science Swims in the Slipstream of Ultimate Questions de Roger Wagner

The Penultimate Curiosity: How Science Swims in the Slipstream of Ultimate Questions

Autor Roger Wagner, Andrew Briggs
en Limba Engleză Paperback – 17 apr 2019

În The Penultimate Curiosity, descoperim o perspectivă inedită asupra evoluției gândirii umane, pornind de la primele manifestări artistice din peșteri și ajungând la complexitatea fizicii cuantice. Recomandăm această lucrare pentru modul în care reușește să demonteze mitul conflictului ireconciliabil dintre credință și rațiune. Autorii, Roger Wagner și Andrew Briggs, propun o structură narativă în care știința nu este privită ca un domeniu izolat, ci ca o activitate ce „înoată în siajul” întrebărilor fundamentale despre existență. Ceea ce distinge acest volum este simbioza dintre text și cele 190 de ilustrații, care nu sunt simple anexe, ci instrumente esențiale de argumentare.

Această abordare amintește de temele explorate în Science, Religion and Deep Time de Lowell Gustafson, care analizează religia prin prisma istoriei bazate pe dovezi, însă The Penultimate Curiosity este mai axată pe dimensiunea estetică și pe continuitatea istorică a curiozității umane. În timp ce Why Religion is Natural and Science is Not se concentrează pe fundamentele cognitive ale credinței, lucrarea de față oferă o viziune mai vastă, integrând artele vizuale și istoria ideilor într-un discurs unitar. Considerăm că volumul completează organic preocupările anterioare ale autorilor, cum ar fi seria The Curious Science Quest de Andrew Briggs sau explorările poetice din The Nearer You Stand de Roger Wagner, oferind de data aceasta o sinteză academică solidă, publicată la OUP OXFORD.

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Specificații

ISBN-13: 9780198839286
ISBN-10: 0198839286
Pagini: 496
Ilustrații: 190 illustrations
Dimensiuni: 168 x 239 x 23 mm
Greutate: 0.89 kg
Editura: OUP OXFORD
Colecția OUP Oxford
Locul publicării:Oxford, United Kingdom

De ce să citești această carte

Această carte se adresează cititorilor interesați de istoria ideilor și de dialogul dintre știință și teologie. Veți câștiga o înțelegere profundă a modului în care marile întrebări ale umanității au alimentat progresul științific. Este o recomandare esențială pentru cei care caută o abordare interdisciplinară, susținută vizual, asupra modului în care ne explicăm universul.

Despre autor

Roger Wagner este un renumit artist și poet britanic, ale cărui lucrări explorează adesea intersecția dintre narațiunile biblice și peisajul contemporan, fiind cunoscut pentru volumul The Nearer You Stand. În această colaborare, el face echipă cu Andrew Briggs, profesor de nanomateriale la Universitatea din Oxford. Împreună, cei doi combină rigoarea științifică și sensibilitatea artistică pentru a trasa o istorie a curiozității umane. Briggs este, de asemenea, autorul seriei educative The Curious Science Quest, care apropie publicul tânăr de marile întrebări ale științei și credinței.

Descriere

When young children first begin to ask 'why?' they embark on a journey with no final destination. The need to make sense of the world as a whole is an ultimate curiosity that lies at the root of all human religions. It has, in many cultures, shaped and motivated a more down to earth scientific interest in the physical world, which could therefore be described as penultimate curiosity.These two manifestations of curiosity have a history of connection that goes back deep into the human past. Tracing that history all the way from cave painting to quantum physics, this book (a collaboration between a painter and a physical scientist that uses illustrations throughout the narrative) sets out to explain the nature of the long entanglement between religion and science: the ultimate and the penultimate curiosity.

Recenzii

This book offers a fascinating perspective on the perennial human quest for understanding and meaning. Its two distinguished authors - with contrasting backgrounds - have meshed their expertise together to create a thought-provoking and original synthesis.
Our species should be called Homo spiritualis rather than sapiens. Asking "Why?" about the world gave rise to Religion, Philosophy, and Science. The interactions and entanglements are outlined in this book of amazing scope and interest.
The achievements of science are breathtaking. At times so breathtaking that they cause us to lose perspective on the wonderful created world of which we, the most 'curious' of animals, are a part. This book is a remarkable achievement in that whilst reaching from prehistory, through ancient Greece to the present day, it draws upon the distinctive intellectual resources of a distinguished artist and art historian and a researcher at the cutting-edge of contemporary science. The resulting, beautifully illustrated volume, is a feast of interdisciplinary thinking at its best. It raises profound questions, The Penultimate Curiosity, posed for millennia by philosophers, religious people and more recently scientists, and points to constructive answers.
Evidence-based scientific rationality is very good at finding answers to the how questions. How did the Universe evolve from the Big Bang? How does matter arrange itself into objects ranging from atomic nuclei to human beings, planets and stars? But when it comes to the why questions, science does not necessarirly have the answers. Instead of putting science and religion in opposition to each other, we should therefore be asking if dialogue can exist between the two, whether they can respect each other and accept each other's points of view. In the Penultimate Curiosity, Andew Briggs and Roger Wagner demonstrate that it is not only possible, but also enriching to follow such a course.

Notă biografică

Roger Wagner has been described by Charles Moore as the "best religious painter in Britain today". He gained first class honours in English Literature at Oxford, and then studied for three years at the Royal Academy before returning to live in Oxford and paint full time. Both The Ashmolean Museum at Oxford and The Fitzwilliam Museum at Cambridge have his work in their permanent collections. He has produced several books of illustrated poems and translations of the Psalms. Since 2010 he has taught at the Ruskin School of Art. A book about his work Forms of Transcendence The Art of Roger Wagner by Chris Miller was published in 2009. His 2012 Gresham College lecture was published on the web http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uMb8rIQbTGc. His new stained glass window was installed in St Mary's Iffley in 2012. He was commissioned to paint the first portrait of Justin Welby as Archbishop of Canterbury, which in 2014 was hung in Auckland Castle.Andrew Briggs was elected in 2002 as the first holder of the newly created Chair in Nanomaterials at the University of Oxford. After studying physics at Oxford he gained a PhD at the Cavendish Laboratory in Cambridge, where the inscription from the Psalms was placed over the entrance of the new laboratory at his initiative. He then studied for a degree in Theology at Cambridge, winning the Chase Prize for Greek, before returning to Oxford in 1980 to pursue an academic career in science. In what is now the Department of Materials he has been successively Royal Society Research Fellow, University Lecturer, Reader, and Professor. His scientific research focuses on materials and techniques for quantum technologies, in which non-classical superposition and entanglement are harnessed for future applications such as computers and information processors. Simultaneously his experiments also probe foundational questions such as the nature of reality in the context of quantum theory.