202503 SE Science and Religion

winter semester 2022/2023 | Last update: 23.06.2023 Place course on memo list
202503
SE Science and Religion
SE 2
5
weekly
every 2nd year
English

After successful completion of the course, the student will be familiar with the most influential positions taken on the relation between science and religious belief and is able to identify the reasons and motivation that underlie those positions.

This course addresses the following questions:

(1) What is the relation between science and religious belief? Are they in conflict with each other, or are they compatible?

(2) What, if anything, makes it the case that science is more than a mere opinion? Likewise, what, if anything, makes it the case the religious belief, especially Christian belief, is more than a mere opinion? These questions for the heart of the epistemology of science, as well as the epistemology of religious belief.

We use historically informed argumentation, plus conceptual analysis.

Mid-term paper, and a final paper.

  • Peter Harrison, The Territories of Science and Religion (Chicago/London: University of Chicago Press, 2015).
  • Alvin Plantinga, Where the Conflict Really Lies. Science, Religion, and Naturalism (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2011).
  • Some additional papers.

None.

This course will be offered on-site next winter semester.

03.10.2022
Group 0
Date Time Location
Mon 2022-10-03
14.00 - 15.45 eLecture - online eLecture - online
Mon 2022-10-10
14.00 - 15.45 eLecture - online eLecture - online
Mon 2022-10-17
14.00 - 15.45 eLecture - online eLecture - online
Mon 2022-10-24
14.00 - 15.45 eLecture - online eLecture - online
Mon 2022-10-31
14.00 - 15.45 eLecture - online eLecture - online
Mon 2022-11-07
14.00 - 15.45 eLecture - online eLecture - online
Mon 2022-11-14
14.00 - 15.45 eLecture - online eLecture - online
Mon 2022-11-21
14.00 - 15.45 eLecture - online eLecture - online
Mon 2022-11-28
14.00 - 15.45 eLecture - online eLecture - online
Mon 2022-12-05
14.00 - 15.45 eLecture - online eLecture - online
Mon 2022-12-12
14.00 - 15.45 eLecture - online eLecture - online
Mon 2023-01-09
14.00 - 15.45 eLecture - online eLecture - online
Mon 2023-01-16
14.00 - 15.45 eLecture - online eLecture - online
Mon 2023-01-23
14.00 - 15.45 eLecture - online eLecture - online
Mon 2023-01-30
14.00 - 15.45 eLecture - online eLecture - online