Judaism, science, and moral responsibility
By: edited by Yitzhak Berger and David Shatz.
Contributors: Berger, Yitzhak.; Shatz, David.
Series: The Orthodox Forum; Orthodox Forum series
Publisher: Rowman & Littlefield Publishers
Published: 2006
Place of publication: Lanham, Md
Language: eng
Number of pages: 303
Subjects: Judaism and science -- Congresses.; Science -- Moral and ethical aspects -- Congresses.; Jewish ethics -- Congresses.; Repentance -- Judaism -- Congresses.
Genres: Congresses.
Notes: Proceedings of the 14th Orthodox Forum, held in 2002.

Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: A scientific perspective on human choice / Haim Sompolinsky; title: Genetics and morality / Robert Pollack; title: Is matter all that matters? : Judaism, freedom, and the genetic and neuroscientific revolutions / David Shatz; title: Use it or lose it : on the moral imagination of free will / Shalom Carmy; title: Choice-diminished behavior and religious-communal policy / Basil Herring; title: If an abuser cannot control his impulses, what is the responsibility of other adults in the community? : a response to Basil Herring / Rivkah Teitz Blau; title: Psychotherapy and teshuvah : parallel and overlapping systems for change / Michelle Friedman and Rachel Yehuda; title: To whom, to where and to when does one "return" in teshuvah? / Moshe Halevi Spero.