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.
Philosophy, Science and Religion: Philosophy and Religion
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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.
完成时间为 1 小时
2 个视频 （总计 7 分钟）, 4 个阅读材料
4 个阅读材料
About this course10分钟
Course assessments and exercises10分钟
Course textbook10分钟
Introductory Reading: Faith and Rationality10分钟
完成时间为 1 小时
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.
完成时间为 1 小时
5 个视频 （总计 27 分钟）, 2 个阅读材料, 3 个测验
5 个视频
Lecture 1.2: Religious Belief and Embodiment4分钟
Lecture 1.3: Neural Correlates of Religious Belief7分钟
Lecture 1.4: Religious Belief and the Cognitive Science of Religion8分钟
Lecture 1.5: Religious Belief Disproved?3分钟
2 个阅读材料
Introductory Reading: Does Contemporary Neuroscience Debunk Religious Belief?10分钟
Find out more...!10分钟
3 个练习
Test your understanding4分钟
Test your understanding2分钟
Module Quiz6分钟
完成时间为 1 小时
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.
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5 个视频 （总计 45 分钟）, 1 个阅读材料, 6 个测验
5 个视频
Lecture 2.2 - Possible conflict between religion and science4分钟
Lecture 2.3 - Official Christian stances on the conflict9分钟
Lecture 2.4 - Views on human origins12分钟
Lecture 2.5 - Is the religious public in moral conflict with science?9分钟
1 个阅读材料
Religion and Science: Beyond the Epistemological Conflict Narrative10分钟
6 个练习
Test your understanding4分钟
Test your understanding2分钟
Test your understanding2分钟
Test your understanding4分钟
Module Quiz6分钟
Assess the reading critically10分钟
完成时间为 2 小时
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.
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4 个视频 （总计 47 分钟）, 3 个阅读材料, 4 个测验
4 个视频
Lecture 3.2 - Social epistemology23分钟
Lecture 3.3 - Implications for religious epistemology9分钟
Lecture 3.4 - Conclusion3分钟
3 个阅读材料
Introductory Reading: Are Theism and Atheism Totally Opposed?10分钟
Further reading10分钟
Testimony and the Transmission of Religious Knowledge10分钟
4 个练习
Test your understanding!6分钟
Test your understanding!6分钟
Module Quiz6分钟
Assess the reading critically2分钟
完成时间为 4 小时
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.
完成时间为 4 小时
5 个视频 （总计 41 分钟）, 2 个阅读材料, 6 个测验
5 个视频
Lecture 4.2 - Main objections to the argument6分钟
Lecture 4.3 - Responses to the objections14分钟
Lecture 4.4 - The relationship between religion and science7分钟
Lecture 4.5 - Philosophy's contribution to the theism debates5分钟
2 个阅读材料
Introductory Reading: Is God Hidden, Or Does God Simply Not Exist?10分钟
Divine Hiddenness and Human Philosophy10分钟
5 个练习
Test your understanding6分钟
Test your understanding2分钟
Module Quiz6分钟
Test your understanding4分钟
Assess the reading critically2分钟
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来自PHILOSOPHY, SCIENCE AND RELIGION: PHILOSOPHY AND RELIGION的热门评论
由 B 提供May 29, 2020
The course was really beneficial especially for people who want to know deeper information about the truth of the begging, the main argue and how people are different in thinking.
由 MD 提供Jan 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.
由 MH 提供Apr 28, 2020
It is a good course that provide a basic understanding for inter-relation between religion and philosophy as both of the believe systems have existed since hundred years ago
由 CW 提供Jun 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.
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