Evolutionary Religion. By J. L.Schellenberg. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2013. 192 pp. Hardcover $34.95.

Abstract

In this review, I present eight books recently produced by the Copernicus Center in Kraków. These eight are not their full production, as the website of their publishing venture, http://en.ccpress.pl/, testifies. The Copernicus Center is an interdisciplinary collaboration of philosophers, theologians, scientists, and lawyers. Of these, Michael Heller, cosmologist and mathematician, philosopher and priest, winner of the Templeton Prize in 2008, is the most well-known among readers of Zygon, I assume. This extraordinarily fertile group represents a very coherent program that has deep roots in the intellectual culture of Kraków, as described in a very readable contribution by Bartosz Brożek and Michael Heller in this issue of Zygon: Journal of Religion and Science.A characteristic title in their program is Between Philosophy and Science. The authors analyze in depth philosophical issues informed by science, and scientific developments that are also philosophical in kind. In this volume, Robert Audi clarifies scientific and methodological naturalism, and with such a naturalism the possibility of ontological pluralism. Roman Murawski, Krzysztof Wójtowic, and Bartosz Brożek each consider issues related to the nature of mathematics and logic. Michael Heller and Wojciech P. Grygiel reflect on quantum gravity and ontology at the Planck scale, and Helge Kragh and Bogdan Dembiński consider philosophy of science in historical and Platonic perspective. Wojciech Załuski and Łukasz Kurek focus on the human, with evolutionary anthropology and neurophilosophy, while