Epistemology of miracle. Scientific inexplicability, religious sense and system approach towards the epistemology of miracle

• Druk: Warszawa, 2012
• Autor: Adam Świeżyński
• Wydawca: Wydawnictwo Naukowe UKSW

Publikacja próbująca wyjaśnić naukową niezrozumiałość, zmysł religijny i podejście systemowe kierunku epistemologii cudu.

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• Język wydania: polski
• ISBN: 978-83-7072-807-6
• Liczba stron: 204

INTRODUCTION     9

PART ONE: THE QUESTION OF SCIENTIFIC INEXPLICABILITY OF MIRACULOUS EVENT     27
INTRODUCTION     27
CHAPTER 1: EXPLAINING WITHIN NATURAL SCIENCES AND THE LAWS OF SCIENCE     31
1.1. INTRODUCTION     31
1.2. EXPLAINING THE EVENTS THROUGH THE REFERENCE TO LAWS OF SCIENCE     33
1.3. THE DESCRIPTION AND TYPES OF SCIENTIFIC LAWS     41
1.4. SIMPLIFIED AND APPROXIMATE CHARACTER OF SCIENTIFIC LAWS     47

CHAPTER 2: SCIENTIFIC INEXPLICABILITY OF THE EVENT     53
2.1. INTRODUCTION     53
2.2. SCIENTIFIC INEXPLICABILITY AS THE CONSEQUENCE OF THE SUPERNATURAL CHARACTER OF EVENT     55
2.3. EPISTEMOLOGICAL AND METHODOLOGICAL CONDITIONS OF SCIENTIFIC INEXPLICABILITY OF EVENT     58

CHAPTER 3: THE THEOREM ABOUT THE SCIENTIFIC INEXPLICABILITY OF A MIRACULOUS EVENT     63
3.1. INTRODUCTION     63
3.2. ACCEPTING GOD’S ACTION AS A SOURCE OF THE CLAIM ON SCIENTIFIC INEXPLICABILITY OF MIRACULOUS EVENT     64
3.3. THE PROPOSAL OF MODIFYING THE THEOREM ABOUT SCIENTIFIC INEXPLICABILITY
OF MIRACULOUS EVENT     75

PART TWO: THE SENSE OF MIRACULOUS EVENT     87
INTRODUCTION     87
CHAPTER 4: CLARIFICATION OF THE TERM ‘SENSE OF MIRACULOUS EVENT’     89
4.2. NON-RELIGIOUS SENSE OF MIRACULOUS EVENT     94
4.3. RELIGIOUS SENSE OF MIRACULOUS EVENT     101

CHAPTER 5: THE PROCESS OF DETERMINING RELIGIOUS SENSE OF MIRACULOUS EVENT     113
5.1. INTRODUCTION     113
5.2. PERSPECTIVES OF RELIGIOUS RECOGNITION OF MIRACLE     115
5.3. THE WAY OF DETERMINING THE RELIGIOUS SENSE OF MIRACULOUS EVENT     131

PART THREE: THE SYSTEM APPROACH TOWARDS THE EPISTEMOLOGY OF MIRACLE     147
INTRODUCTION     147
CHAPTER 6: THE ASSUMPTIONS OF SYSTEM EPISTEMOLOGY OF MIRACLE     151
6.1. INTRODUCTION     151
6.2. THE NOTION OF INCULTURATION OF MIRACULOUS EVENT     151
6.3. SCIENTIFIC NON-INCULTURATION     156
6.4. THEOLOGICAL INCULTURATION     158

CHAPTER 7: THE CHARACTERISTICS OF SYSTEM EPISTEMOLOGY OF MIRACLE     161
7.1. INTRODUCTION     161
7.2. NATURAL SCIENTIFIC KNOWLEDGE AND THEOLOGICAL INTERPRETATION AS THE SYSTEMS OF OBTAINING KNOWLEDGE ABOUT MIRACULOUS EVENT     162
7.3. RATIONALITY AS THE COMMON ENVIRONMENT OF THE NATURAL SCIENTIFIC KNOWLEDGE SYSTEM AND THEOLOGICAL INTERPRETATION SYSTEM     165

CHAPTER 8: THE CONSEQUENCES OF SYSTEM APPROACH TOWARDS THE EPISTEMOLOGY OF MIRACLE     175
8.1. INTRODUCTION     175
8.2. SERIES AND PARALLEL JOINS WITHIN THE SYSTEM EPISTEMOLOGY OF MIRACLE     176
8.3. FEEDBACKS AND SELF-JOINS IN THE SYSTEM EPISTEMOLOGY OF MIRACLE     179

CONCLUSION     187
BIBLIOGRAPHY     191
ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS     201