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Arguing Science

Arguing Science

A Dialogue on the Future of Science and Spirit

by Rupert Sheldrake and Michael Shermer

Published by: Monkfish Book Publishing

Imprint: Monkfish Book Publishing

160 Pages, 5.50 x 8.50 in

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9781939681577
Published: October 2016

$15.95

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Two controversial authors debate the nature and methods of science, its dogmas, and its future. Rupert Sheldrake argues that science needs to free itself from materialist dogma while Michael Shermer contends that science, properly conceived, is a materialistic enterprise; for science to look beyond materialist explanations is to betray science and engage in superstition. Issues discussed include: materialism and its role in science, whether belief in God is compatible with a scientific perspective, and parapsychology.

Michael Shermer is Editor-in-Chief of Skeptic magazine and the author of numerous books including Skeptic.

Rupert Sheldrake is a biologist and author of ten books including his most recent, Science Set Free, which challenges scientific dogma.

Opening Interviews
--Rupert Sheldrake
--Michael Shermer
Materialism in Science, Opening Statements
Materialism in Science, Responses
Materialism in Science, Replies
Mental Action at a Distance, Opening Statements
Mental Action at a Distance, Responses
Mental Action at a Distance, Replies
God and Science, Opening Statements
God and Science, Responses

Dr. Rupert Sheldrake is a biologist and the author of more than ninety technical papers and fourteen books, including Science Set Free. After studying at Cambridge and Harvard Universities, he worked in Hyderabad, India, as principal plant physiologist at the International Crops Research Institute for the Semi-Arid Tropics, and lived for two years in the Benedictine ashram of Father Bede Griffiths. From 2005 to 2010, he was director of the Perrott-Warrick Project for the study of unexplained human and animal abilities, funded by Trinity College, Cambridge.

He is currently a Fellow of the Institute of Noetic Sciences in Petaluma, California, and of Schumacher College in Dartington, Devon, UK. He lives in London with his wife Jill Purce, with whom he has two sons.