ZYGO Zygon® 0591-2385 1467-9744 10.1111/j.1467-9744.2008.00945.x HOW THE PHILOSOPHY OF SCIENCE CHANGED RELIGION AT NINETEENTH‐CENTURY HARVARD Nartonis David K. 02 09 2008 43 3 10.1111/zygo.2008.43.issue-3 639 650 © 2008 by the Joint Publication Board of Zygon

Nineteenth‐century Harvard faculty and students looked to philosophical ideas about the proper and effective study of nature as the model of rationality to which their religion must conform. As these ideas changed, notions of rationality changed and so did Harvard religion.

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