202553 SE Science and Religion

winter semester 2023/2024 | Last update: 14.02.2024 Place course on memo list
202553
SE Science and Religion
SE 2
5
every 2 weeks
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.

The main methods will be: interpretation of texts, historic contextualisation, conceptual clarification, argument analysis.

Presentation, mid-term paper, and a final paper.

  • Matthias Haudel, Theologie und Naturwissenschaft (Göttingen: V&R, 2021)
  • 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.

Bring you lunch bag for the break.

This course will be offered online next winter semester.

10.10.2023
Group 0
Date Time Location
Tue 2023-10-10
11.30 - 14.45 SR III (Theologie) SR III (Theologie) Barrier-free
Tue 2023-10-24
11.30 - 14.45 SR III (Theologie) SR III (Theologie) Barrier-free
Tue 2023-11-14
11.30 - 14.45 SR III (Theologie) SR III (Theologie) Barrier-free
Tue 2023-11-21
11.30 - 14.45 SR III (Theologie) SR III (Theologie) Barrier-free
Tue 2023-12-05
11.30 - 14.45 SR III (Theologie) SR III (Theologie) Barrier-free
Tue 2023-12-12
11.30 - 14.45 SR III (Theologie) SR III (Theologie) Barrier-free
Tue 2024-01-09
11.30 - 14.45 SR III (Theologie) SR III (Theologie) Barrier-free
Tue 2024-01-23
11.30 - 14.45 SR III (Theologie) SR III (Theologie) Barrier-free