Judaism, science, and moral responsibility / edited by Yitzhak Berger and David Shatz.

Publication:

Lanham, Md. : Rowman & Littlefield, c2006.

Conference Name:

Orthodox Forum (14th : 2002)

Series:

Orthodox Forum series

Format/Description:

Conference/Event
Book
xi, 303 p. ; 23 cm.

Subjects:

Judaism and science -- Congresses.
Science -- Moral and ethical aspects -- Congresses.
Jewish ethics -- Congresses.
Repentance -- Judaism -- Congresses.

Contents:

A scientific perspective on human choice / Haim Sompolinsky
Genetics and morality / Robert Pollack
Is matter all that matters? : Judaism, freedom, and the genetic and neuroscientific revolutions / David Shatz
Use it or lose it : on the moral imagination of free will / Shalom Carmy
Choice-diminished behavior and religious-communal policy / Basil Herring
If an abuser cannot control his impulses, what is the responsibility of other adults in the community? : a response to Basil Herring / Rivkah Teitz Blau
Psychotherapy and teshuvah : parallel and overlapping systems for change / Michelle Friedman and Rachel Yehuda
To whom, to where and to when does one "return" in teshuvah? / Moshe Halevi Spero.

Notes:

Proceedings of the 14th Orthodox Forum, held in 2002.
Includes bibliographical references and index.

Contributor:

Berger, Yitshak.
Shatz, David.

ISBN:

0742545954 (cloth : alk. paper)
0742545962 (pbk. : alk. paper)

OCLC:

58791102

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