new book by Del Ratzsch

From: Inge Frette (inge.frette@geologica.no)
Date: Thu Mar 15 2001 - 11:15:57 EST

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    Hello folks,
    Del Ratzsch of Calvin college has a new book out
    this or next month - a book published in "SUNY series
    in philosophy and biology"

    The book is called "Nature, design and science: the status
    of design in natural science"

    Table of Contents
    Section I. Design basics
    1. Design preliminaries
    2. Science and finite design
    Section II. Supernatural design
    3. Supernatural design: preliminary basics
    4. Identifying supernatural design: primary marks
    5. Identifying supernatural design: secondary marks
    6. Design in nature
    Section III. Boundaries of scientific legitimacy
    7. Beyond the empirical
    8. The Legitimacy criterion
    Section IV. The permissibility question
    9. Cases for impermissibility
    10. Legitimacy
    11. Are there any payoffs?
    12. Conclusion
    Appendix: Dembski's Design Inference

    Regards, Inge

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