ZYGO Zygon® 0591-2385 1467-9744 10.1111/j.1467-9744.2004.00582.x Toward an Ethics of Knowledge Westhelle Vítor 02 06 2004 39 2 10.1111/zygo.2004.39.issue-2 383 388

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.

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