Burch, M (2016) Religion and scientism: a shared cognitive conundrum. International Journal for Philosophy of Religion.
Burch, M (2016) Religion and scientism: a shared cognitive conundrum. International Journal for Philosophy of Religion.
Burch, M (2016) Religion and scientism: a shared cognitive conundrum. International Journal for Philosophy of Religion.
Abstract
This article challenges the claim that the rise of naturalism is devastating to religious belief. This claim hinges on an extreme interpretation of naturalism called scientism, the metaphysical view that science offers an exhaustive account of the real. For those committed to scientism, religious discourse is epistemically illegitimate, because it refers to matters that transcend?and so cannot be verified by?scientific inquiry. This article reconstructs arguments from the phenomenological tradition that seem to undercut this critique, viz., arguments that scientism itself cannot be justified without recourse to matters that transcend scientific inquiry. If this is true, then scientism and religion share a cognitive conundrum: a commitment to truths that cannot in principle be known from our current perspective.
Item Type: | Article |
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Uncontrolled Keywords: | Naturalism; Scientism; Phenomenology; Atheism; Rational belief |
Subjects: | B Philosophy. Psychology. Religion > B Philosophy (General) |
Divisions: | Faculty of Arts and Humanities Faculty of Arts and Humanities > Philosophical, Historical and Interdisciplinary Studies, School of |
SWORD Depositor: | Unnamed user with email elements@essex.ac.uk |
Depositing User: | Unnamed user with email elements@essex.ac.uk |
Date Deposited: | 09 Aug 2016 15:12 |
Last Modified: | 16 May 2024 18:27 |
URI: | http://repository.essex.ac.uk/id/eprint/17390 |
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