Toward an Ethics of Knowledge

Abstract. Modern science is one form of knowledge, demarcated by its time (modernity) and by other “knowledges.” There is a fair amount of clarity as to what does not count as scientific, but there is a twilight zone of knowledges whose scientific status is ambivalent. In this zone the encounter bet...

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1. VerfasserIn: Westhelle, Vitor 1952- (VerfasserIn)
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Sprache:Englisch
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Veröffentlicht: Wiley-Blackwell 2004
In: Zygon
Jahr: 2004, Band: 39, Heft: 2, Seiten: 383-388
weitere Schlagwörter:B Liminality
B epistemic claim
B epochal threshold
B epistemic territory
B knowledges
B ethics of knowledge
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Zusammenfassung:Abstract. Modern science is one form of knowledge, demarcated by its time (modernity) and by other “knowledges.” There is a fair amount of clarity as to what does not count as scientific, but there is a twilight zone of knowledges whose scientific status is ambivalent. In this zone the encounter between science and religion takes place. The particular contribution of religion and theology in this encounter is to call for an ethics of knowledge in the epistemological endeavors of science.
ISSN:1467-9744
Enthält:Enthalten in: Zygon
Persistent identifiers:DOI: 10.1111/j.1467-9744.2004.00582.x