Anthony O’Hear is Professor of Philosophy at the University of Buckingham, UK. From 1994-2019 he was Director of the Royal Institute of Philosophy and Editor of Philosophy, its academic journal. He is the author of many books and articles on philosophy, including Karl Popper (1980), What Philosophy Is (1984), The Element of Fire (1988), Introduction to the Philosophy of Science (1989), Beyond Evolution (1997), Philosophy in the New Century (2001) and The Landscape of Humanity (2008). Picturing the Apocalypse (2015), co-authored with Natasha O’Hear, won the ACE/Mercers prize in 2017 as the best book internationally on art and religion. Anthony O’Hear was appointed OBE in 2018.

• Preface; Part One: Transcendence; Chapter One The Scope of Philosophy; Chapter Two Darwinian Tensions; Chapter Three Epistemology and the Anthropic Principle; Chapter Four The Lost Amazing Crown: The Meaning of Ruskin’s Theoretic Faculty; Chapter Five The Great Absence: Scruton’s Cognitive Dualism; Part Two: Creation and Incarnation; Chapter Six Why? Creation and Incarnation; Chapter Seven This is the Place: Reflections on the Reality of the Incarnation; Chapter Eight Conclusion; Appendix ‘The Night’ by Henry Vaughan and ‘Love’ by George Herbert

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