Science, humanism, and religion : the quest for orientation / Matthias Jung.

Intro; Preface and Acknowledgments; Contents; Chapter 1: Introduction: Orientation as a Life-Function; Science and Religion: Changing the Perspective; Humans and Other Organisms: From the Environment to the World; Do We Need an Articulated Relation to Comprehensive Reality?; Immanuel Kant and the Idea of Orientation; The Incompleteness of Objective Reality and the Primacy of Meaning; Linguistic Animals: Shared Consciousness and the Articulation of Felt Meaning; The Conceptual Context: Naturalism and Humanism; References

Chapter 2: Science versus Scientism: Is There Such a Thing as the Scientific Worldview?Science as a Life-Function; The Relative Autonomy of Science; Unity and Pluralism: The Cognitive Scope of Science; Science as a Religion: What Is Bad About Scientism; References; Chapter 3: Varieties of Naturalism and Humanism; Human Values and Naturalism; The Hidden Agenda of Modernity: Stephen Toulmin; Middle-Ground Humanism; References; Chapter 4: Rediscovering the Importance of Ordinary Experience; Holism; Qualitative Character; Embodiment and Transcendence; Action-Orientation; Articulation and Meaning

The Secular State, Worldview Pluralism, and the Problem of Shared ValuesThe Optional Character of Worldviews: Genuine Options; References; Index