Modern materialism and emergent evolution
By: by William McDougall ...
Contributors: Louisville Presbyterian Theological Seminary.
Publisher: D. Van Nostrand Company
Published: 1929
Place of publication: New York
Language: eng
Number of pages: 249
Subjects: Materialism.; Evolution.
Description: "The denial of the reality of teleological causation is the characteristic feature of contemporary science and justifies the designation Modern Materialism. In this book I have sought to show that, when Atomic Materialism is rejected, the remaining grounds for denying teleological causation are very flimsy; that Science is in the very act of repudiating the chief remaining ground, namely, the belief that conscious thinking cannot affect the course of physical events; and that we have the strongest possible grounds for believing that our own voluntary actions are instances of truly teleological intervention in the course of physical events." (PsycINFO Database Record (c) 2010 APA, all rights reserved).
Notes: "These lectures were delivered at the Louisville Presbyterian Theological Seminary on the William G. Duncan lectureship in religious education, in November, 1928."