William Paley

William Paley
William Paley (1743–1805)
Lahir	Juli 1743 Peterborough, Inggris
Meninggal	25 Mei 1805 Bishopwearmouth, Inggris
Tempat tinggal	Inggris
Kebangsaan	Inggris
Almamater	Christ's College, Cambridge
Dikenal atas	Berkontribusi pada filsafat moral, filsafat politik, etik dan filsafat agama
Penghargaan	Members' Prize, Cambridge, 1765
Karier ilmiah
Bidang	teologi alam
Institusi	Giggleswick Grammar School, Christ's College, Cambridge, Giggleswick Parish, Katedral Carlisle, Katedral Lincoln, Katedral Durham

William Paley (Juli 1743 – 25 Mei 1805) merupakan seorang rohaniwan, apolog Kristen, filsuf, dan utilitarian Inggris. Ia paling dikenal karena eksposisi teologi alam-nya dari argumen teologi mengenai keberadaan Tuhan pada karyanya Natural Theology: or, Evidences of the Existence and Attributes of the Deity, yang membuat penggunaan analogi tukang jam.

Kehidupan

Paley lahir di Peterborough, Inggris, dan dididik di Sekolah Giggleswick. Ayahnya merupakan kepala sekolah, dan di Christ's College, Cambridge.

Karya

• The Principles of Moral and Political Philosophy, 1785
• Horae Paulinae, or the Truth of the Scripture History of St Paul, 1790
• View of the Evidences of Christianity, 1794
• Paley, William (1809), Natural Theology: or, Evidences of the Existence and Attributes of the Deity (edisi ke-ke-12), London: J. Faulder 

Referensi

Sumber

• Fyfe, A. 'Publishing and the classics: Paley's Natural Theology and the nineteenth-century scientific canon', Studies in the History and Philosophy of Science, 33 (2002), 729–51.
• Gascoigne, J., 'Rise and Fall of British Newtonian Natural Theology', Science in Context, 2 (1988), 219–256.
• Gillespie, N. C. 'Divine Design and the Industrial Revolution. William Paley's Abortive Reform of Natural Theology', Isis, 81 (1990), 214–229.
• Philipp, W. 'Physicotheology in the Age of Enlightenment: Appearance and History', Studies on Voltaire and the Eighteenth Century, 57 (1967), 1233–1267.
• Topham, J. R. 'Science, natural theology, and evangelicalism in the early nineteenth century: Thomas Chalmers and the evidence controversy', in D. N. Livingstone, D. G. Hart and M. A. Knoll, Evangelicals and Science in Historical Perspective (Oxford: 1999), 142–174.
• Topham, J. R. 'Beyond the "Common Context": the Production and Reading of the Bridgewater Treatises', Isis, 89 (1998), 233–62.

Bacaan tambahan

• Brown, Colin. Miracles and the Critical Mind, Paternoster, Exeter and William B. Eerdmans, Grand Rapids, 1984.
• Brooke, John H. Science and Religion: Some Historical Perspectives, Cambridge University Press, Cambridge, 1991.
• Clarke, M.L., Paley: Evidences for the Man, University of Toronto Press, Toronto, 1974.
• Dodds, G. L. Paley, Wearside and Natural Theology, Sunderland, 2003.
• Gilson, E., From Aristotle to Darwin and Back again: A Journey in Final Causality, Species, and Evolution, John Lyon (trans), Notre Dame University Press, London 1984.
• Knight, David. Science and Spirituality: The Volatile Connection, Routledge, London, 2004.
• LeMahieu, D.L. The Mind of William Paley, Lincoln, Nebraska, 1976.
• McAdoo, H. R., The Spirit of Anglicanism: A Survey of Anglican Theological Method in the Seventeenth Century (London, 1965).
• McGrath, A. E., A Scientific Theology: Volume I, Nature, Continuum, Edinburgh, 2001.
• Meadley, G. W. Memoirs of William Paley, to which is Added an Appendix, London, 1809.
• Ospovat, D. The Development of Darwin's Theory: Natural History, Natural Theology and Natural Selection, 1838–1859, Cambridge University Press, Cambridge, 1995.
• Pelikan, J. Christianity and Classical Culture: The Metamorphosis of Natural Theology in the Christian Encounter with Hellenism, Yale University Press, New Haven, 1993.
• Porter, R. 'Creation and Credence', in Barry Barnes and Steven Shapin (eds), Natural Order: Historical Studies of Scientific Culture, Sage Press, Beverly Hills, 1979.
• Raven, C. Natural Religion and Christian Theology, Cambridge University Press, Cambridge, 1953.
• Richards, R. J. The Romantic Conception of Life: Science and Philosophy in the Age of Goethe, Chicago University Press, Chicago, 2002.
• Rose, J. The Intellectual Life of the British Working Classes, Yale University Press, New Haven, 2002.
• Rosen, Frederick, Classical Utilitarianism from Hume to Mill (Routledge Studies in Ethics & Moral Theory), 2003. ISBN 0-415-22094-7
• Rousseau, G. S. and Roy Porter (eds), The Ferment of Knowledge – Studies in the Historiography of Eighteenth Century Science, Cambridge University Press, Cambridge, 1980.
• St Clair, W. The Reading Nation in the Romantic Period, Cambridge University Press, Cambridge, 2004.
• Viner, J. The Role of Providence in the Social Order, American Philosophical Society, Philadelphia, 1972.
• Von Sydow, M. 'Charles Darwin: A Christian undermining Christianity?', in David M. Knight and Matthew D. Eddy, Science and Beliefs: From Natural Philosophy to Natural Science, Ashgate, Aldershot, 2005

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• Karya tulis oleh atau tentang William Paley di Wikisource
• Karya William Paley di Project Gutenberg
• William Paley catatan di Internet Encyclopedia of Philosophy
• William Paley.com
• Berkeley: Paley
• Excerpt from William Paley's 1802 book Natural Theology
• Full text of William Paley's Natural Theology