Teleology and Modernity

William Gibson is Professor of Ecclesiastical History and Director of the Oxford Centre for Methodism and Church History at Oxford Brookes University.Dan O’Brien is Reader in Philosophy and Subject Co-ordinator for Philosophy at Oxford Brookes University Marius Turda is Professor in 20th Century Central and Eastern European Biomedicine at Oxford Brookes University.

• List of contributorsIntroductionby Dan O’Brien, Marius Turda and William GibsonSection I: ReligionChapter 1: ‘We Apply these Tools to our Morals’: Eighteenth-century Freemasonry, A Case Study in Teleology by Richard BerrmanChapter 2: Teleologies and Religion in the Eighteenth Century by William GibsonChapter 3: John Wesley and the Teleology of Education by Linda A. RyanSection II: HistoryChapter 4: Teleology and Raceby Marius TurdaChapter 5: Charles Darwin and the Argument for Design by David RedvaldsenChapter 6: Teleology and Jewish Heretical Religiosity: Nietzsche and Rosenzweigby David OhanaSection III: PhilosophyChapter 7: Can the Sciences Do without Final Causes?by Stephen BoulterChapter 8: Hume, Teleology and the ‘Science of Man’by Lorenzo Greco and Dan O’BrienChapter 9: What is the Function of Morality?by Mark CainChapter 10: Is Intuitive Teleological Reasoning Promiscuous?by Johan de Smedt and Helen de CruzIndex