Stuart A. Kauffman is the founding director of the Institute for Biocomplexity and Informatics and a professor of biological sciences, physics, and astronomy at the University of Calgary. He is Emeritus Professor of Biochemistry at the University of Pennsylvania, a MacArthur Fellow, and an external professor at the Santa Fe Institute. His books include The Origins of Order and At Home in the Universe: The Search for the Laws of Self-Organization and Complexity. He lives in Calgary, Canada.
"Choice"
"Kauffman, an outstanding thinker who has devoted much reflection
to complexity theory, offers some insightful perspectives on the
physical world in "Reinventing the Sacred,.".. This is an
interesting book that will generate much discussion."
"Houston Chronicle"
"Kauffman's book is a rigorous intellectual quest not only to find
the sacred in nature but to remove the taint of atheism from
science."
"Scientific American"
"[Kauffman's] provocative argument for a different understanding of
God is compelling."
"Science"
"["Reinventing the Sacred"] sparkles from every angle as its author
gallops through the relevant science, philosophy, economics,
history, ethics, poetry and - well, we had better use the word
because Kauffman does: religion.... Bringing science and religion
together globally in the way that Kauffman wishes is not going to
be easy - as other ecumenical movements have repeatedly found - but
it is necessary."
"Library Journal"
"[Kauffman] offers a fresh angle in the ongoing debates concerning
creationism, intelligent design, and evolution."
"Publishers Weekly"
"Provocative.... Kauffman raises important questions about the
self-organizing potential of natural systems that deserve serious
consideration."
Brian Goodwin, Co-author of "Signs of Life: How Complexity Pervades
Biology"
"This brilliantly-argued book takes science into novel territory
with clarity and conviction, and in Kauffman's inimitable style it
challenges some scientific taboos. With this book a new biology is
emerging, and with it a new culture."
Owen Flanagan, Author of "The Really HardProblem"
"Stuart Kauffman is the new Spinoza. "Reinventing the Sacred" is a
pedagogical tour de force as well as an uplifting metaphysics for
the 21st century."
Gordon D. Kaufman, Mallinckrodt Professor of Divinity, Emeritus,
Harvard University
"This is a brilliant, new, comprehensive, scientific world-picture,
and it deserves a wide reading in the educated public."
Philip Clayton, Author of "Mind and Emergence"
""Reinventing the Sacred" is a tour de force and a brilliant
manifesto for a new emergence-based scientific worldview. But
science alone will never be enough; humanity must also invent new
categories of the sacred that speak to this naturalistic age.
Stuart Kauffman courageously challenges fundamentalist pretensions
on both sides, seeking to mold a new partnership of science and
religious values...an epoch-making book."
Kenneth Arrow, Nobel Laureate in Economics
"Stuart Kauffman has long studied the nature of complexity in
biological systems. His new book shows in a startling way the power
of these ideas in our understanding of ourselves and how we relate
to the world around us. The sense of agency and of values,
seemingly banished by the scientific viewpoint, are restored and
enriched by a fuller perception of science deriving from biology as
well as physics. Any reader's views will be dramatically
altered."
Lee Smolin, Author of "The Trouble with Physics"
"Stuart Kauffman has written a wonderful book, as optimistic as it
is provocative. He proposes a new scientific world view that not
only incorporates reductionism, but goes beyond it to a vision of a
self-constructed and continuously creative universe whichcan be
understood and revered, but not always predicted. Knowledge and
wisdom are different aspects of our humanity in Kauffman's
universe."
"Shift Magazine"
"Well-written and rigorously argued.... For this meaningful
contribution to the quest for an era of sustainability, atheists
and believers alike should be most grateful."
"Choice"
"Kauffman, an outstanding thinker who has devoted much reflection
to complexity theory, offers some insightful perspectives on the
physical world in "Reinventing the Sacred,.".. This is an
interesting book that will generate much discussion."
"Houston Chronicle"
"Kauffman's book is a rigorous intellectual quest not only to find
the sacred in nature but to remove the taint of atheism from
science."
"Scientific American"
"[Kauffman's] provocative argument for a different understanding of
God is compelling."
"Science"
"["Reinventing the Sacred"] sparkles from every angle as its author
gallops through the relevant science, philosophy, economics,
history, ethics, poetry and - well, we had better use the word
because Kauffman does: religion.... Bringing science and religion
together globally in the way that Kauffman wishes is not going to
be easy - as other ecumenical movements have repeatedly found - but
it is necessary."
"Library Journal"
"[Kauffman] offers a fresh angle in the ongoing debates concerning
creationism, intelligent design, and evolution."
"Publishers Weekly"
"Provocative.... Kauffman raises important questions about the
self-organizing potential of natural systems that deserve serious
consideration."
Brian Goodwin, Co-author of "Signs of Life: How Complexity Pervades
Biology"
"This brilliantly-argued book takes science into novel territory
with clarity and conviction, and in Kauffman's inimitable style it
challenges some scientific taboos. With this book a new biology is
emerging, and with it a new culture."
Owen Flanagan, Author of "The Really HardProblem"
"Stuart Kauffman is the new Spinoza. "Reinventing the Sacred" is a
pedagogical tour de force as well as an uplifting metaphysics for
the 21st century."
Gordon D. Kaufman, Mallinckrodt Professor of Divinity, Emeritus,
Harvard University
"This is a brilliant, new, comprehensive, scientific world-picture,
and it deserves a wide reading in the educated public."
Philip Clayton, Author of "Mind and Emergence"
""Reinventing the Sacred" is a tour de force and a brilliant
manifesto for a new emergence-based scientific worldview. But
science alone will never be enough; humanity must also invent new
categories of the sacred that speak to this naturalistic age.
Stuart Kauffman courageously challenges fundamentalist pretensions
on both sides, seeking to mold a new partnership of science and
religious values...an epoch-making book."
Kenneth Arrow, Nobel Laureate in Economics
"Stuart Kauffman has long studied the nature of complexity in
biological systems. His new book shows in a startling way the power
of these ideas in our understanding of ourselves and how we relate
to the world around us. The sense of agency and of values,
seemingly banished by the scientific viewpoint, are restored and
enriched by a fuller perception of science deriving from biology as
well as physics. Any reader's views will be dramatically
altered."
Lee Smolin, Author of "The Trouble with Physics"
"Stuart Kauffman has written a wonderful book, as optimistic as it
is provocative. He proposes a new scientific world view that not
only incorporates reductionism, but goes beyond it to a vision of a
self-constructed and continuously creative universe which canbe
understood and revered, but not always predicted. Knowledge and
wisdom are different aspects of our humanity in Kauffman's
universe."
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