Teleology and Modernity

William Gibson is Professor of Ecclesiastical History and Director of the Oxford Centre for Methodism and Church History at Oxford Brookes University. Dan O’Brien is Reader in Philosophy and Subject Co-ordinator for Philosophy at Oxford Brookes University Marius Turda is Professor in 20th Century Central and Eastern European Biomedicine at Oxford Brookes University.

List of contributors



Introduction



by Dan O’Brien, Marius Turda and William Gibson



Section I: Religion



Chapter 1: ‘We Apply these Tools to our Morals’: Eighteenth-century Freemasonry, A Case Study in Teleology



by Richard Berrman



Chapter 2: Teleologies and Religion in the Eighteenth Century



by William Gibson



Chapter 3: John Wesley and the Teleology of Education



by Linda A. Ryan



Section II: History



Chapter 4: Teleology and Race



by Marius Turda



Chapter 5: Charles Darwin and the Argument for Design



by David Redvaldsen



Chapter 6: Teleology and Jewish Heretical Religiosity: Nietzsche and Rosenzweig



by David Ohana



Section III: Philosophy



Chapter 7: Can the Sciences Do without Final Causes?



by Stephen Boulter



Chapter 8: Hume, Teleology and the ‘Science of Man’



by Lorenzo Greco and Dan O’Brien



Chapter 9: What is the Function of Morality?



by Mark Cain



Chapter 10: Is Intuitive Teleological Reasoning Promiscuous?



by Johan de Smedt and Helen de Cruz



Index