This engaging collection of essays locates the debate between theism and naturalism in the broader context of reflection on imagination and aesthetics. The eleven original essays will be of interest to anyone who is fascinated by the power of imagination and the role of aesthetics in deciding between worldviews or philosophies of nature.

• Introduction


• 1: Martin Kemp: 'Loving Insight': D Arcy Thompson s Aristotle and the Soul in Nature


• 2: Geoffrey Gorham: Early Scientific Images of God: Descartes, Hobbes, and Newton


• 3: Anthony O Hear: Darwinian Tensions


• 4: Dale Jacquette: Evolutionary Emergence of Intentionality and Imagination


• 5: E. J. Lowe: Naturalism, Imagination, and the Scientific World View


• 6: Douglas Hedley: Homo Imaginans and the Concursus Divinus


• 7: Daniel N. Robinson: Aesthetics, Phantasia and the Theistic


• 8: Conor Cunningham: Naturalism Lost: Nature Regained


• 9: Gordon Graham: The Sacred Beauty of Nature


• 10: Mark Wynn: Imaging Religious Thoughts in the Appearance of Sensory Things


• 11: Jil Evans: Re-Imaging the Galapagos

Charles Taliaferro, professor of philosophy (St. Olaf College), is the author or co-author or editor of fifteen books, including The Companion to Philosophy of Religion (with Paul Draper and Philip Quinn), The Image in Mind (co-authored with Jil Evans), and Evidence and Faith; Philosophy and Religion since the Seventeenth Century. He served on the editorial board of many journals, including Religious Studies and he serves on the American Philosophical Association Committee on the Status and Future of the Profession [of Philosophy].
Jil Evans is a visual artist whose paintings have been exhibited throughout the U.S. and in Europe and the co-author of The Image in Mind: Theism, Naturalism and the Imagination