Project
title:
A Religious and Philosophical Hermeneutic of the Indian Scientific
Tradition.
Abstract:
While the science-religion enterprise in the West is very much dominated
by the inter-placement of the natural sciences and the Christian theology,
the Eastern scientific and religious traditions are yet to establish
themselves in this emerging interdisciplinary field. The dual significance
of the Indian scientific traditions on the world of the science-religion
dialogue can be identified as both epistemological and ontological.
The very cultural, existential and religious sitz im Leben of the
birth of the Indian sciences as evidenced by historical research can
very well add an “affective” and emotive dimension to
the Western interdisciplinary attempts dominated by the cognitive
and rationalistic approaches. As ontology and epistemology are analogically
correlated and so intrinsically proximate in the Indian tradition,
the methodology, scope, philosophy, practice and praxis of the Indian
sciences are permeated by a substantively holistic and integral vision
of reality.
Short
biography:
Dr
Augustine Pamplany is the Dean of Philosophy and Vice Rector at Little
Flower Seminary Institute of Philosophy and Religion and the Director
of the Institute of Science and Religion at Little Flower Seminary.
He is the recipient of the second prize award from John Templeton
Foundation in an International Students' Essay Competition Conducted
by the Foundation in 1997 on the topic : “Can Scientific Research
Enhance Theology?”. He is also the recipient of the Science
and Religion Course award of the Templeton Sponsored Centre For Theology
and Natural Sciences at Berkeley University of California.
