Scientific and Religious Belief

✍ Scribed by Keith Lehrer (auth.), Professor Paul Weingartner (eds.)

• Publisher: Springer Netherlands
• Year: 1994
• Tongue: English
• Leaves: 193
• Series: Philosophical Studies Series 59
• Edition: 1
• Category: Library

✦ Synopsis

This book provides new insights into the interrelation between scientific and religious belief. The chapters cover important features of belief in general and discuss distinctive properties between belief, knowledge and acceptance. These properties are considered in relation and comparison to religious belief. Among the contributions are topics such as: the change of scientific belief in relation to the change of our information. Is belief value-free? What are rational reasons (for the justification) of religious hypotheses? What are the important similarities and differences between scientific and religious belief? The different features and aspects are discussed in respect to the great religions of mankind. In addition to the research papers the book contains selections of the discussion which help to clarify interesting details. The book will be of interest to a vast readership among philosophers, theologians and people interested in philosophical questions concerning religion.

✦ Table of Contents

Front Matter....Pages i-viii
Knowledge, Faith and Skepticism....Pages 1-25
Reasons and Causes of Beliefs....Pages 27-45
Nonmonotonic Reasoning and Changes of Belief....Pages 47-76
The Case Against Value-Free Belief....Pages 77-103
Similarities and Differences Between Scientific and Religious Belief....Pages 105-142
Religious Hypothesis Revisited....Pages 143-160
On Religious Experience....Pages 161-182
Back Matter....Pages 183-189

✦ Subjects

Philosophy of Religion; Philosophy of Science; Religious Studies; Epistemology