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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Main Author: Van Huyssteen, J. Wentzel 1942-2022 (Author)
Format: Electronic Article
Language:English
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Published: Open Library of Humanities$s2024- 1993
In: Zygon
Year: 1993, Volume: 28, Issue: 3, Pages: 371-376
Further subjects:B epistemic values
B theory-acceptance
B Rationality
B Holism
B postmodern culture
B Cognitive
B intelligibility
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Summary: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
Contains:Enthalten in: Zygon
Persistent identifiers:DOI: 10.1111/j.1467-9744.1993.tb01041.x