About Sustainable Development and the Spiritual: Response to Antje Jackelén.
Abstract
The particular question The Most Reverend Dr. Antje Jackelén's Boyle Lecture puts in front of us is: How can science and technology engage with the spiritual? In my response, I unpack this question in three parts: (1) the obstacles for theology and the possibilities for philosophy to help scientists and engineers in engaging with the humanities, and with spirituality; (2) the centrality of experience and uncertainty in all domains of culture (which I define in a very wide sense as the "field of resources" that practitioners in a practice draw on, be it a scientific or engineering practice, a religious practice, a political practice, and so on); and (3) the implications of all this for addressing the spiritual in policymaking for sustainable development.