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Thinking the Relationship between Science, Religion, and Philosophy: New Perspectives of Interdisciplinarity, 2019

It can be considered that the main source of faith in many thinkers lies in the great enigma of the origin of the Universe, the matter, that in all rigor current science is incapable of solve. Scientific activity in its most advanced forms, and the most elaborate concerns only the transformations of matter, once it is there as a datum, a raw existent. She therefore, this activity is entirely situated below the great mystery. And the two conceivable attitudes in this respect are, in terms of philosophical, options of principle. Faced with the relativism that seems to dominate contemporary epistemology, the effort to distinguish the scientific approach from the reality of religious and philosophical approaches may seem reckless and outmoded. Yet it is an urgent task if we want to avoid the banal «All is good» that places all forms of knowledge at the same level of uncertainty and confusion. How to distinguish religious spirit, scientific spirit and philosophical thought in order to fully understand the respective scope and their limits? There is a lucid conception of human knowledge. This article attempts to provide an interdisciplinary answer to the difficult question of the originality of the scientific reflection through the examination of the main currents of thought that have crossed the epistemology, mainly in the twentieth century. The article is an attempt of exploring the possible ways to address the question of meaning and truth via an interdisciplinary approach of Science (answering the question of How and addresses facts), Philosophy (trying to answer the question of Why?) and Religion (answering Ultimate questions, values) by exposing the epistemological limits, the objects and the methods of scrutinizing human experience and the reality as a whole We still remember that Einstein clearly stated that «Science without religion is lame; religion without science is blind»2. Does it make sense to philosophically re-think the nature of the relation between Science and Religion? What is the situation of the philosophy of religion today? What about the relation between science and philosophy? These are essential questions addressed human intelligence and questioning both the totality of his experience, culture and of his presence-in- the-world, and how he makes sense of nature and his understanding of the world. What are today the areas of possible interdisciplinary re-conciliation between the ideal of philosophy, religion and science as differential modes expression of our understanding of reality as such?

Theology and the People Of God ed. Anthony M. Maher, 2022

Introductory explanation for those from theological or religious backgrounds wanting a good overview of philosophy then and now. ch. 4 of Theology and the People of God ed. Anthony M. Maher (St. Pauls, 2022)

Phaenomenologica, 2010

On Reflection, 2023

A Series of 12 Sets of Reflections on Reflection... Looking at various topics including pragmatic-existentialism; (non-economic) non-philosophy; meta-modernism/hyper-realism; authenticity; optimism; positive and negative types of nihilism; dealing with pseudo-psychotic and conspiratorial narrators; phenomenology and subjectivity; hermeneutics; existentialism and the secular world...

Answering Humean Concerns re Causal Experience Postscript to Volume II

The attempt to understand nature remains one of the basic objectives of Western thought. It should not, however, be identified with the idea of control. The master who believes he understands his slaves because they obey his orders would be blind. When we turn to physics, our expectations are obviously different, but here as well, Vladimir Nabokov's conviction rings true: "What can be controlled is never completely real; what is real can never be completely controlled." The [naturally-mechanistic] classical ideal of science, a world without time, memory, and history, recalls the totalitarian nightmares described by

DISCOURSE-LEEDS-SCHOOL OF THEOLOGY AND …, 2006

2020

This volume looks at the practicalities of philosophy through a variety of lenses (phenomenological, hermeneutical, existential, etc.).

Philosophical Books, 2006

Christensen carefully traces the detailed casuistry of an ongoing debate about the nature of rational belief. It is made clear from the beginning that the book will not deal with the dynamics of belief change (pp. 5-6). The focus is almost wholly on two major accounts of belief systems viewed more or less as static

Cultural Critique , 2020