Philosophy, Science and Religion mark three of the most fundamental modes of thinking about the world and our place in it. Are these modes incompatible? Put another way: is the intellectually responsible thing to do to ‘pick sides’ and identify with one of these approaches at the exclusion of others? Or, are they complementary or mutually supportive? As is typical of questions of such magnitude, the devil is in the details. For example, it is important to work out what is really distinctive about each of these ways of inquiring about the world. In order to gain some clarity here, we’ll be investigating what some of the current leading thinkers in philosophy, science and religion are actually doing.
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Philosophy, Science and Religion: Philosophy and Religion
Universidad de Edimburgo
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Programa - Qué aprenderás en este curso
1 hora para completar
Introduction to the course
In this module Professor Duncan Pritchard welcomes you to the course and gives you a preview of our journey together over the next six weeks.
1 hora para completar
2 videos (Total 7 minutos), 4 lecturas
4 lecturas
About this course10m
Course assessments and exercises10m
Course textbook10m
Introductory Reading: Faith and Rationality10m
1 hora para completar
Mind, Science, and Religion
Dr. Sarah Lane Ritchie starts us off with a tour of the relationship between the various brain sciences and religious belief.
1 hora para completar
5 videos (Total 27 minutos), 2 lecturas, 3 cuestionarios
5 videos
Lecture 1.2: Religious Belief and Embodiment4m
Lecture 1.3: Neural Correlates of Religious Belief7m
Lecture 1.4: Religious Belief and the Cognitive Science of Religion8m
Lecture 1.5: Religious Belief Disproved?3m
2 lecturas
Introductory Reading: Does Contemporary Neuroscience Debunk Religious Belief?10m
Find out more...!10m
3 ejercicios de práctica
Test your understanding4m
Test your understanding2m
Module Quiz6m
1 hora para completar
Science and Religion in the Public Realm
In this series of lectures, Professor John Evans describes a sociological approach to the question of religion and science that focuses on contemporary society. Using debates about fact claims and morality of human evolution as his continuing example, and with a focus on the relationship with science that religious and other citizens have with science, he describes three types of conflict. Unlike the philosophical and theological debate that focuses upon conflict over knowledge claims about the physical world, Evans shows how the contemporary debate for citizens is more likely to be about morality.
1 hora para completar
5 videos (Total 45 minutos), 1 lectura, 6 cuestionarios
5 videos
Lecture 2.2 - Possible conflict between religion and science4m
Lecture 2.3 - Official Christian stances on the conflict9m
Lecture 2.4 - Views on human origins12m
Lecture 2.5 - Is the religious public in moral conflict with science?9m
1 lectura
Religion and Science: Beyond the Epistemological Conflict Narrative10m
6 ejercicios de práctica
Test your understanding4m
Test your understanding2m
Test your understanding2m
Test your understanding4m
Module Quiz6m
Assess the reading critically10m
2 horas para completar
Religious Disagreement and Friendly Theism/Atheism
In this series of lectures Professor John Greco discusses the topic of religious disagreement. Part One considers two problems that we find in the epistemology of religion: The Problem of Evil (or Suffering) and The Problem of Divine Hiddenness. In these contexts, theists and atheists often accuse each other of irrationality. Even worse, each party of the debate explains that irrationality by positing some moral or intellectual flaw in the other. The basic idea is this: If you don’t see things the way I do, that must be due to some intellectual or moral flaw in you. Part Two introduces resources in social epistemology that help us to understand what is going on here. The main idea is that social location affects epistemic position-- that social location matters, epistemically speaking. This is a central lesson of contemporary social epistemology, and one that can be fruitfully adopted by religious epistemology as well. Part Three explores some further implications of a “social religious epistemology.” Most importantly, we see how moral and practical aspects of the social environment can have epistemic consequences.
2 horas para completar
4 videos (Total 47 minutos), 3 lecturas, 4 cuestionarios
4 videos
Lecture 3.2 - Social epistemology23m
Lecture 3.3 - Implications for religious epistemology9m
Lecture 3.4 - Conclusion3m
3 lecturas
Introductory Reading: Are Theism and Atheism Totally Opposed?10m
Further reading10m
Testimony and the Transmission of Religious Knowledge10m
4 ejercicios de práctica
Test your understanding!6m
Test your understanding!6m
Module Quiz6m
Assess the reading critically2m
4 horas para completar
The Hiddenness Argument and the Contribution of Philosophy
In this series of lectures, Professor John Schellenberg introduces and explains a new argument for atheism known as the hiddenness argument. He highlights the self-imposed limitations of this way of reasoning, which is aimed at ruling out just one candidate for the status of a divine reality, the notion of a personal divine. He then clarifies the relations between this approach to the question of God's existence and other features of the contemporary landscape in philosophy and science – including the philosophical problem of evil, certain results of the cognitive science of religion, and recent moral changes suggesting cultural evolution.
4 horas para completar
5 videos (Total 41 minutos), 2 lecturas, 6 cuestionarios
5 videos
Lecture 4.2 - Main objections to the argument6m
Lecture 4.3 - Responses to the objections14m
Lecture 4.4 - The relationship between religion and science7m
Lecture 4.5 - Philosophy's contribution to the theism debates5m
2 lecturas
Introductory Reading: Is God Hidden, Or Does God Simply Not Exist?10m
Divine Hiddenness and Human Philosophy10m
5 ejercicios de práctica
Test your understanding6m
Test your understanding2m
Module Quiz6m
Test your understanding4m
Assess the reading critically2m
Revisiones
Principales revisiones sobre PHILOSOPHY, SCIENCE AND RELIGION: PHILOSOPHY AND RELIGION
por MDJan 11, 2020
Good course but it seemed to end abruptly. It was missing some type of conclusory module that tied the segments together. Overall, the course was interesting and worth the time.
por CWJun 9, 2018
This was a first class course in all respects. The calibre of the lecturers was very high indeed and they all made the material very accessible.
por EMDec 7, 2017
Refreshing to be updated with the latest developments in epistemology and philosophy of religion among others.
por ASNov 14, 2017
Very informative and Well designed course to dive into the field of Philosophy, Science and Religion.
por GRAug 17, 2018
Very intuitive to get to know the fundamentals of the Religions, Science and Philosophy.
por DTMay 5, 2018
great topic, great professors, had a great time and have accrued further understanding
por CHJan 12, 2018
I thought this was a great overview: well-produced, engaging, and thought-provoking.
por KKDec 24, 2017
Although, I am not a great fan of epistemology. I did find this course refreshing.
por SSOct 7, 2017
A very thought-provoking and well measured course in its approach to the subjects.
por RNJul 24, 2018
I learned a lot and it gave me perspectives that I never had before.
por LTSep 11, 2017
Really interesting. New optics, new way of thinking. Thank you
por DRFeb 17, 2018
Awesome class!! I was very engaged, and I loved the content!
por MESep 12, 2017
great course discuss a very interesting and important points
por MGFeb 22, 2018
Very informative and easy to follow and keep up with.
por GPApr 3, 2018
Thanks Coursera for providing this wonderful course
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