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ISBN: 9780776604992-14
Category: Epistemology & Metaphysics
Theism and Science
From: God and Argument - Dieu et l'argumentation philosophique
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An important tradition in western philosophy believes in the primacy of natural science as a guide to truth. This is sometimes met with the charge that such an allegiance amounts to ‘scientism’—the view that the only things that ‘really’ exist are those recognised by fundamental physical theory, and that the only forms of genuine knowledge are scientific ones.
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John Haldane
John Haldane is Professor of Philosophy and Head of the School of Philosophical and Anthropological Studies at the University of St. Andrews, Scotland. He is a Fellow of the Royal Society of Edinburgh