Critical Realism Redux: A Response to Josh Reeves
This article combines an appreciation of several themes in Josh Reeves's Against Methodology in Science and Religion: Recent Debates on Rationality and Theology while arguing in favor of critical realism. The author holds that critical realism manages to combine the objective truth reached thro...
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| Format: | Electronic Article |
| Language: | English |
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Wiley-Blackwell
[2020]
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Zygon
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| Standardized Subjects / Keyword chains: | B
Reeves, Josh A. 1976-, Against methodology in science and religion
/ Historical method
/ Critical realism
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| IxTheo Classification: | AB Philosophy of religion; criticism of religion; atheism AD Sociology of religion; religious policy CF Christianity and Science |
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Nancey Murphy
B J. Wentzel van Huyssteen B Critical Realism B Rationality B Josh Reeves B Alister McGrath B Inference B Judgment |
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| Summary: | This article combines an appreciation of several themes in Josh Reeves's Against Methodology in Science and Religion: Recent Debates on Rationality and Theology while arguing in favor of critical realism. The author holds that critical realism manages to combine the objective truth reached through inference and especially cognitive acts of judgment as well as the various, contingent historical contexts that also define where science is practiced. Reeves advocates a historical perspective, but this article claims that in order for critical realism to be credible, a philosophical perspective must be maintained. |
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| ISSN: | 1467-9744 |
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| Persistent identifiers: | DOI: 10.1111/zygo.12626 |