Science, reason & religion / Derek Stanesby.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Stanesby, Derek, author.

Series:

Routledge library editions. Philosophy of religion.

Routledge Library Editions: Philosophy of Religion ; Volume 33

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Religion and science.

Science--Philosophy.

Science.

Religion--Philosophy.

Religion.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (388 p.)

Other Title:

Science, reason and religion

Place of Publication:

London ; New York : Routledge, 2013.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

Philosophy matters. This is the message of this highly original inquiry into the relationship between science and religion. It is only when we examine the intellectual presuppositions on which science and religion are based, with regard to such fundamentals as truth, objectivity, and realism, that we perceive the link between these two enterprises which are essential to any characterization of man. The book offers a lucid and enlightening account of the main movements in the philosophy of science in the twentieth century, and then proceeds to demonstrate their consequences for philos

Contents:

Cover; Half Title; Title Page; Copyright Page; Original Title Page; Original Copyright Page; Table of Contents; Preface; Acknowledgements; Introduction; Notes; 1. The Authority of the Senses; The Empirical Tradition: Positivism; The Received View; The Verification Theory of Meaning; The Development of the Received View; Induction; Metaphysics and Religion; The Failure of the Verification Principle; The Demise of the Received View; The Theological Response; Retrospect; Notes; 2. The Retreat from Authority; Karl Popper; The Evolution of Persons; The Evolutionary Continuum

Emergence and ReductionDarwinism and Natural Selection; Indeterminacy and Plastic Control; The Emergence of Consciousness; Problem Solving; The Emergence of Language - the Genetic Factors; The Emergence of Language - the Cultural Factors: an Evolutionary Sequence; Linguistic Subjectivism; Learning Language by Trial and Error; Language, Plastic Control and Feedback; Conclusion; The Evolution of Knowledge; Evolutionary Epistemology; The Popperian Account of the Growth of Knowledge; Demarcation; The Myth of Induction; Induction - The Psychology of the Situation

Induction - the Logic of the SituationTruth and Verisimilitude; Induction Again?; The Implications for Religion; The Spirit of Enquiry; Metaphysics and Demarcation; The Retreat from Authority; Open and Closed Societies; The Open Universe; Evolution; Postscript; Notes; 3. The Retreat to Irrationality; The Rationale of Discovery; T.S. Kuhn; P.K. Feyerabend; The Fundamental Flaw of the Weltanschauungen Analyses; Ludwig Wittgenstein; Paradigms, Forms of Life and Communities; Wittgenstein and Religious Belief; Religion without Explanation - D.Z. Phillips; Meaning and Existence

The Slippery Subject of TruthNotes; 4. Science, Religion and Rationality; Notes; References; Index

Notes:

"First published in 1985"--T.p. verso.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Description based on online resource; title from title page (ebrary, viewed May 15, 2013).

ISBN:

1-134-04774-6

0-203-52948-0

1-134-04767-3

9780203529485

OCLC:

842414199