Series: He Who Has Ears Scholar and musician Jeff Warren
addresses the questions of how music is meaningful, and where
that meaning resides, by looking at the popular ideas that
musical meaning is entirely subjective to the listener and that
the meaning of music can be universal. He also explores the
recent trend of attempting to explain music via neuroscience.
Finally, he looks into the reasons why music continues to play
such a critical role in the worshiping life of the Church.
Thomas Aquinas: Saint of Evolutionary Psychologists? Thomas
Aquinas (1225-1274) was the foremost Christian scholar of the
High Middle Ages and is today regarded as a "doctor" of the
Catholic Church. No, Aquinas was not a materialist
neuroscientist, but he understood the intimate interdependence
of mind and body. Beware Evolutionary 'Just-so' Stories About
Religious Belief As an evolutionary biologist I am fascinated by
the emergence of cognitive abilities that make us so distinctive
from other living species. There are, however, ris