Science and Spirituality - Stephen Priest

Science and Spirituality: Science has two kinds of limit: Subjective and objective. Some questions are too intimate, too personal, too subjective, for science to answer. Their answers entail the existence of local consciousness and the freedom of the will. Some questions are too large, too remote, too fundamental, for science to answer. Their answers entail Being, Presence and non-local consciousness. Contrary to current popularisations, science and spirituality are mutually consistent ways of understanding and both are necessary for a holistic understanding of existence.
Stephen Priest is Senior Research Fellow in Philosophy at the University of Oxford and Senior Research Professor at the Oxford Dalai Lama Centre for Compassion. He is the author of The British Empiricists (Penguin), Theories of the Mind (Penguin), Merleau-Ponty (Routledge), and The Subject in Question (Routledge). He is editor of Hegel's Critique of Kant (Oxford University Press), Jean-Paul Sartre: Basic Writings (Routledge), and (with Antony Flew) A Dictionary of Philosophy (Macmillan). He has held visiting professorships at universities in France, Germany, the USA and Japan, and his work has been translated into several languages.

[@sophie-963]

I'm still searching for a concise definition for 'spirituality'.

[@neiln4478]

fantastic lecture;
the really interesting questions are mostly subjective questions and thus beyond the realm of normal science and lie rather in realm of the mystical. Science can claim the methodological rigour of its proofs in the objective world of material reality (mechanical physics); the more elusive questions of subjective reality lie exclusively in the quantum domain, the mystical (and the in-deterministic?). Science and spirituality are complementary views of reality, each supreme in their respective domains; whether material or quantum...am i getting this ?

[@kerrysmallman699]

+Neil N Very well put!