Science and the Truthfulness of Beauty: How the Personal Perspective Discovers Creation

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Robert Gilbert

Science and the Truthfulness of Beauty

How the Personal Perspective Discovers Creation

Robert Gilbert

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Routledge
12 December 2019

Philosophy: aesthetics; Philosophy of religion; Religion & science

Series: Routledge Science and Religion Series

When scientists describe their results or insights as 'beautiful', are they using the term differently from when they use it of a landscape, music or another person?

Science and the Truthfulness of Beauty re-examines the way in which seeing beauty in the world plays the key role in scientific advances, and argues that the reliance on such a personal point of view is ultimately justified by belief that we are made in the 'image of God', as Christian and Jewish believers assert. It brings a fresh voice to the ongoing debate about faith and science, and suggests that scientists have as much explaining to do as believers when it comes to the ways they reach their conclusions.

By: Robert Gilbert
Imprint: Routledge
Country of Publication: United Kingdom
Dimensions: Height: 234mm, Width: 156mm,
Weight: 453g
ISBN: 9780367881559
ISBN 10: 0367881551
Series: Routledge Science and Religion Series
Pages: 172
Publication Date: 12 December 2019
Audience: College/higher education , Professional and scholarly , Primary , Further / Higher Education
Format: Paperback
Publisher's Status: Active

1 Introduction: In the eye of the beholder 2 Two different ways of knowing? 3 Beauty everywhere 4 Playful beauty 5 Worldly, natural and real beauty 6 Where does the beauty come from? 7 Understanding beauty 8 Loving beauty 9 Conclusion: Truthful beauty

Robert Gilbert has worked in Oxford since 1999, in 2002 becoming Fellow and Tutor in Biochemistry at Magdalen College. From 2004 to 2012 he held a Royal Society University Research Fellowship in the Division of Structural Biology, part of the Nuffield Department of Medicine where he is now Professor of Biophysics and Director of Graduate Studies alongside his Biochemistry Faculty and College teaching. From 2009 to 2011 Professor Gilbert trained for ordination as an Anglican priest before being made a deacon in 2011 and ordained priest in 2012. After completing his curacy in the parishes of Wolvercote and Wytham in North Oxford, he stayed on as an associate priest before taking up a similar role at Holy Trinity, Headington Quarry, in 2016. He is the author of more than eighty scientific articles, co-edited an international scientific monograph published in 2014 and is the Managing Editor of the European Biophysics Journal.