Project
title:
A Project to Investigate the Relevance of Yin-Yang Thinking in Overcoming
the Conflict between Science and Spirituality.
Abstract:
Chinese
tradition, which emphasizes the interpenetration of opposites, and
the importance of harmony and process, has the capacity to resolve
problems in science and religion that have vexed dualistic Western
thinking. Science and religion can mutually enrich each other, but
only if researchers start from a perspective that truth lies in recognizing
that seeming opposites are actually part of each other. Competing
theories may each contain elements of truth. None contains the whole
truth. Thus, there is much that the Chinese religious traditions have
to offer in promoting dialogue between science and religion.
Short
biography:
Prof.
Xiaoting Liu is vice secretary-general of the Chinese Society for
Dialectics of Nature and deputy editor-in-chief of Studies in Dialectics
of Nature and Director of the Center of Science and Faith at the Chinese
Society for Dialectics of Nature. In 2002, he was the Executive Director
of the Center for Science and Humanities at Beijing Normal University
(BNU). In 2001, he was the Vice-Dean of College of Philosophy and
Sociology at BNU. Prior to that, at Harbin University, Professor Xiaoting
Liu served as Director of the Research Department, Editor-in-chief
of the University Journal and Director of the Institute of Education
and Development. Prof Liu has published many books including A New
Notion of Philosophy in Transformation (1996), Individual Epistemology
(1995) and An Introduction to the Methodology of the Social Sciences
(1994).
