WHAT EPISTEMIC VALUES SHOULD WE RECLAIM FOR RELIGION AND SCIENCE? A RESPONSE TO J. WESLEY ROBBINS

  1. J. Wentzel van Huyssteen

Article first published online: 15 DEC 2005

DOI: 10.1111/j.1467-9744.1993.tb01041.x

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Zygon®

Zygon®

Volume 28, Issue 3, pages 371–376, September 1993

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van Huyssteen, J. W. (1993), WHAT EPISTEMIC VALUES SHOULD WE RECLAIM FOR RELIGION AND SCIENCE? A RESPONSE TO J. WESLEY ROBBINS. Zygon®, 28: 371–376. doi: 10.1111/j.1467-9744.1993.tb01041.x

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  1. J. Wentzel van Huyssteen is James I. McCord Professor of Theology and Science at Princeton Theological Seminary, Princeton, NJ 08542.

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  1. Issue published online: 15 DEC 2005
  2. Article first published online: 15 DEC 2005

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Keywords:

  • cognitive;
  • epistemic values;
  • holism;
  • intelligibility;
  • postmodern culture;
  • rationality;
  • theory-acceptance

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.

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