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Tables of Contents for Is Nature Ever Evil?
Chapter/Section Title
Page #
Page Count
List of figures
ix
Notes on contributors
xi
This vale of tears - the best of all possible worlds?
1
8
Willem B. Drees
Part I Nature, science and value
9
56
Criticizing the cosmos
11
16
Mary Midgley
Response to Mary Midgley's `Criticizing the cosmos'
27
2
Silvia Volker
Mary Midgley on science, nature, metaphysics and ethics: some comments
29
3
Hans Radder
Mind and value: reflections on Max Weber
32
9
Joachim Leilich
The moral relevance of naturalness
41
4
Tatjana Visak
The experience of nature: a hermeneutic approach
45
11
Angela Roothaan
Human interpretation and animal excellence
56
9
Peter Schers
Part II Evil evolutionary justified?
65
82
Naturalizing and systematizing evil
67
20
Holmes Rolston, III
Cooperation or competition: comments on Rolston
87
3
Jacobus J. De Vries
Rolston: a contemporary physico-theologian
90
4
Jozef Keulartz
Are catastrophes in nature ever evil?
94
4
Jan Smit
Contingency and risk: comment on Smit
98
3
Arthur C. Petersen
Nature does not care indeed, but humans do: a commentary
101
5
Fred Spier
The Lisbon earthquake, 1755: a discourse about the `nature' of nature
106
14
Claudia Sanides-Kohlrausch
Tragedy versus hope: what future in an open universe?
120
12
Arnold Benz
Tragedy versus hope? A theological response
132
7
Eduardo R. Cruz
Cosmic fine-tuning, `many universe' theories and the goodness of life
139
8
Neil A. Manson
Part III Improving nature via culture and technology?
147
98
Improvable Nature?
149
21
John Hedley Brooke
Victims of nature cry out
170
3
Leo P. Ten Kate
`Improvable nature?' Some meta-historical reflections
173
6
Henk G. Geertsema
Is nature neutral? The concept of health
179
10
Kris Dierickx
Nature good and evil: a theological palette
189
14
Philip Hefner
Nature good and evil: a theological evaluation
203
11
Wessel Stoker
The quest for perfection: insights from Paul Tillich
214
11
Eduardo R. Cruz
Normativity of nature: natural law in a technological life-world
225
11
Mathew Illathuparampil
Exploring technonature with cyborgs
236
9
Anne Kull
Part IV Values as explanation or values explained?
245
91
Two forms of explanation
247
18
Keith Ward
Two forms of explanation: a response to Ward
265
5
Martien E. Brinkman
Two forms of explanation: a response to Ward
270
4
Ronald Meester
The evaluation of natural reality: a watertight case?
274
10
Edwin Koster
`Ought' in a world that just `is'
284
26
Lindon B. Eaves
What values guide our oughts?
310
3
Angela Roothaan
The normative relevance of disputes in primatology
313
8
Tatjana Visak
Evolutionary views on the biological basis of religion
321
9
Nico M. Van Straalen
Jair Stein
On pattern recognition, evolution, epistemology, religion and evil
330
6
Mladen Turk
Index
336