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

J. Wentzel Huyssteen; J. Wentzel Huyssteen

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

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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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postmodern culture, cognitive, holism, epistemic values, theory‐acceptance, intelligibility, rationality

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Huyssteen, J., (1993) “WHAT EPISTEMIC VALUES SHOULD WE RECLAIM FOR RELIGION AND SCIENCE? A RESPONSE TO J. WESLEY ROBBINS”, Zygon: Journal of Religion and Science 28(3), 371–376. doi: https://doi.org/10.1111/j.1467-9744.1993.tb01041.x

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Volume 28 • Issue 3 • September 1993

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Pages	371–376

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Published	1993-09-02

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