What Epistemic Values Should We Reclaim for Religion and Science? A Response to J. Wesley Robbins

Abstract. Postmodernism in science rejects and deconstructs the cultural dominance of especially the natural sciences in our time. Although it presents the debate between religion and science with a promising epistemological holism, it also seriously challenges attempts to develop a meaningful relat...

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Auteur principal: Van Huyssteen, J. Wentzel 1942-2022 (Auteur)
Type de support: Électronique Article
Langue:Anglais
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Publié: Wiley-Blackwell 1993
Dans: Zygon
Année: 1993, Volume: 28, Numéro: 3, Pages: 371-376
Sujets non-standardisés:B epistemic values
B theory-acceptance
B Rationality
B Holism
B postmodern culture
B Cognitive
B intelligibility
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Résumé:Abstract. Postmodernism in science rejects and deconstructs the cultural dominance of especially the natural sciences in our time. Although it presents the debate between religion and science with a promising epistemological holism, it also seriously challenges attempts to develop a meaningful relationship between science and religion. A neopragmatist perspective on religion and science is part of this important challenge and eminently reveals the problems and reduction that arise when pragmatist criteria alone are used to construct a holism that renounces any demarcation between different areas of rationality. In this pragmatist vision for a holist culture, the cognitive resources of rationality are bypassed in such a way that a meaningful interaction between theology and science becomes impossible.
ISSN:1467-9744
Contient:Enthalten in: Zygon
Persistent identifiers:DOI: 10.1111/j.1467-9744.1993.tb01041.x