RT Article
T1 Postfoundationalism and Interdisciplinarity: A Response to Jerome Stone
JF Zygon
VO 35
IS 2
SP 427
OP 439
A1 Van Huyssteen, J. Wentzel 1942-2022
LA English
PB Wiley-Blackwell
YR 2000
UL https://ixtheo.de/Record/1827953926
AB Abstract. In my recent work I argued that the religion and sciencedialogue is most successful when done locally and contextually. However, I also argued against theology's epistemic isolation in a pluralist, postmodern world, and for a postfoundationalist notion of human rationality that reveals the interdisciplinary, public nature of all theological reflection. I now want to explore the possibility that, when we look at what the prehistory of thehuman mind reveals about the biological roots of all human rationality, some forms of contemporary evolutionary epistemology may actually hold the key to understanding the kind of cognitive fluidity that enables true interdisciplinary reflection. Philosophically the religion and science dialogue benefits from this move when a postfoundationalist notion of rationality redescribes the dynamic interaction of our various disciplinary dialogues with one another as aform of transversal reasoning. Transversality in this sense justifies and urges an acknowledgment of multiple patterns of interpretation as one moves across the borders and boundaries of different disciplines.
K1 wide reflective equilibrium
K1 transversalreasoning
K1 Public Theology
K1 postfoundationalist rationality
K1 interdisciplinary reflection
K1 evolutionary epistemology
K1 constructive postmodernism
K1 cognitive fluidity
K1 biological roots ofhuman rationality
K1 authentic pluralism
DO 10.1111/0591-2385.00285