The Justification of Science and the Rationality of Religious Belief
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Product details:
- Publisher Clarendon Press
- Date of Publication 30 July 1992
- ISBN 9780198240198
- Binding Paperback
- No. of pages208 pages
- Size 47x61x0 mm
- Weight 4 g
- Language English 0
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Short description:
In this book, Banner examines the nature of scientific theories and of religious belief. He argues that, contrary to what is often supposed, religious belief can receive a defence as compelling as that given to the best scientific theories.
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Believers and non-believers often take it for granted that traditional religious faith is, in principle, incapable of the sort of justification which might be given to a scientific theory. Yet how are scientific theories justified and is it the case that religious belief cannot satisfy the same standards of rationality?
Based on a critical examination of recent accounts of the nature of science and of its justification given by Kuhn, Popper, Lakatos, Laudan, and Newton-Smith, this book contends that models of scientific rationality which are used in criticism of religious belief are in fact often inadequate as accounts of the nature of science. It is argued that a realist philosophy of science both reflects the character of science and scientific justification, and also suggests that religious belief could be given a justification of the same sort.
`interesting and informative monograph' Times Higher Education Supplement
Table of Contents:
Introduction; Part I: The Justification of Science; Kuhn's Challenge to the Rationality of Science; In Defence of Rational Realism; Part II: The Rationality of Religious Belief; Does Philosophy of Religion Rest on a Mistake?; Faith and the Religious Adequacy of Explanatory Justification; Theism and Inferring to the Best Explanation; Conclusions: The Problem of Evil and the Philosophy of Science; Afterword; Bibliography; Index
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