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This book argues that Kierkegaard, influenced by Kant's critique of metaphysics, did not attempt to integrate human and divine agencies in any speculative theory. Instead, Kierkegaard deploys them to encourage different passions and dispositions that can be integrated in a coherent human life.

An argument that what makes science distinctive is its emphasis on evidence and scientists' willingness to change theories on the basis of new evidence. Attacks on science have become commonplace. Claims that climate change isn't settled science, that evolution is "only a theory," and that scientists are conspiring to keep the truth about vaccines from the public are staples of some politicians' rhetorical repertoire. Defenders of science often point to its discoveries (penicillin! relativity!) without explaining exactly why scientific claims are superior. In this book, Lee McIntyre argues that what distinguishes science from its rivals is what he calls "the scientific attitude"--caring about evidence and being willing to change theories on the basis of new evidence. The history of science is littered with theories that were scientific but turned out to be wrong; the scientific attitude reveals why even a failed theory can help us to understand what is special about science. McIntyre offers examples that illustrate both scientific success (a reduction in childbed fever in the nineteenth century) and failure (the flawed "discovery" of cold fusion in the twentieth century). He describes the transformation of medicine from a practice based largely on hunches into a science based on evidence; considers scientific fraud; examines the positions of ideology-driven denialists, pseudoscientists, and "skeptics" who reject scientific findings; and argues that social science, no less than natural science, should embrace the scientific attitude. McIntyre argues that the scientific attitude--the grounding of science in evidence--offers a uniquely powerful tool in the defense of science.

Cover -- Contents -- Foreword -- Explanation of the References -- Sigla -- Introduction: Augustine and Kierkegaard: Rivals or Allies? -- Part One: Setting the Stage: Two Pilgrims on the Way Home -- 1. Kierkegaard's Tensive Picture of Augustine -- 2. Augustine's Restless Heart and Kierkegaard's Desirefor an Eternal Happiness -- 3. Augustine and Kierkegaard on the Road:Life as a Journey -- Part Two: Signposts on the Journey: Specific Theological Intersectionsof Augustine and Kierkegaard -- 4. God: The Attraction and Repulsionof Boundless Love -- 5. Sin: Culpable Action and Corrupt State -- 6. God's Gracious Response to Sin: The Enigma of Divine Sovereignty and Human Responsibility -- 7. Christology: The Allure of Lowliness -- 8. Salvation: Faithful Love and Loving Faith -- 9. The Church: A Parting of the Ways? -- 10. Conclusion: Two Edifying Theologies of Self--Giving -- Bibliography -- Index

Cover -- Half Title -- Title Page -- Copyright Page -- Table of Contents -- List of Contributors -- List of Abbreviations -- PART I INDIVIDUAL TEXTS AND FIGURES -- Simeon and Anna: Exemplars of Patience and Expectancy -- Jesus' Miracles: Kierkegaard on the Miracle of Faith -- The Sermon on the Mount: The Dialectic of Exhortation and Consolation -- The Lily in the Field and the Bird of the Air: An Endless Liturgy in Kierkegaard's Authorship -- Peter: The "Pitiable Prototype" -- The Pharisee: Kierkegaard's Polyphonic Personification of a Univocal Idea -- The Tax Collector: Model of Inwardness

Lee Bollinger is one of our foremost experts on the First Amendment. In this sweeping account, he explores the troubled history of a free press in America. Bollinger shows how the idea of press freedom has evolved over time, in response to social, political, technological, and legal changes. It was not until the twentieth century that freedom of the press came to be understood as guaranteeing an "uninhibited, robust and wide-open" public discourse. But even then, government continually tried to erect barriers. Bollinger sheds light on this history and explores the future of the press in our globalized, internet-dominated era.

Cover -- Half Title -- Title -- Dedication -- Copyright -- Contents -- Preface -- 1 The Nomological Ideal -- Notes -- 2 Fundamental Objections to Social Scientific Laws -- The Argument from Complexity -- The Argument from Openness -- Conclusion -- Notes -- 3 Practical Objections to Social Scientific Laws -- The Argument from Complexity -- The Argument from Openness -- Conclusion -- Notes -- 4 The Role of Laws in Scientific Understanding: The Case of Evolutionary Biology -- The Status of Laws in Evolutionary Biology -- Lessons for the Social Sciences -- Notes -- 5 A Question of Relevance -- The Argument from Irrelevance -- Physicalism: Relevance Reconsidered -- Conclusion -- Notes -- 6 Metaphysical Interlude -- Naturalism Without Reductionism -- Supervenience -- Notes -- 7 Prospects and Limitations of a Nomological Social Science -- Notes -- Bibliography -- About the Book and Author -- Index