ISBN10: 0231145500, ISBN13: 9780231145503, [publisher: Columbia University Press] Hardcover For more than a decade, a small group of scientists and philosophers has met regularly to explore the intersection between science and the spirit--asking if physics, chemistry, and biology can explain the mystery of life. This work reproduces that dramatic, cross-cultural dialogue. Series: Columbia Series in Science and Religion. Num Pages: 232 pages, 59 illus. BIC Classification: HRAM3; HRE. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 229 x 152 x 21. Weight in Grams: 499. . 2008. Hardcover. . . . . Books ship from the US and Ireland.
[Olney, MD, U.S.A.] [Publication Year: 2008]

ISBN10: 0231145500, ISBN13: 9780231145503, [publisher: Columbia University Press] Hardcover
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New York Columbia University Press 2008 Hard cover New. Sewn binding. Cloth over boards. With dust jacket. 232 p. Contains: Illustrations, black & white. Columbia Science and Religion.

ISBN10: 0231145500, ISBN13: 9780231145503, [publisher: Columbia University Press, New York] Hardcover Hardcover. For over a decade, a small group of scientists and philosophers-members of the Mind and Life Institute-have met regularly to explore the intersection between science and the spirit. At one of these meetings, the themes discussed were both fundamental and profound: can physics, chemistry, and biology explain the mystery of life? How do our philosophical assumptions influence science and the ethics we bring to biotechnology? And how does an ancient spiritual tradition throw new light on these questions?Pier Luigi Luisi not only reproduces this dramatic, cross-cultural dialogue, in which world-class scientists, philosophers, and Buddhist scholars develop a holistic approach to the scientific exploration of reality, but also adds scientific background to their presentations, as well as supplementary discussions with prominent participants and attendees. Interviews with His Holiness the Karmapa, the Buddhist monk Matthieu Ricard, and the actor and longtime human rights advocate Richard Gere take the proceedings into new directions, enriching the material with personal viewpoints and lively conversation about such topics as the origin of matter, the properties of cells, the nature of evolution, the ethics of genetic manipulation, and the question of consciousness and ethics. A keen study of character, Luisi incorporates his own amusing observations into this ...

ISBN10: 0231145500, ISBN13: 9780231145503, [publisher: Columbia University Press] Hardcover 0231145500
[DH, SE, Spain] [Publication Year: 2008]