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.
This course, entitled ‘Philosophy and Religion’, is the second of three related courses in our Philosophy, Science and Religion Online series, and in this course we will ask important questions about the age-old debate between science and religion, such as:
• What kind of conflicts are there between religion and science?
• Does current cognitive science of religion effectively explain away God?
• If there is a God who has made us so that we can know him, why do some people not believe?
• Is belief in science also a kind of fundamentalism?
• What makes us good at getting, giving, or sharing, knowledge? Is this different when it is religious knowledge?
The first course in the Philosophy, Science and Religion series, 'Science and Philosophy' was launched early in 2017 and you can sign up to it at any time. The third course —‘Religion and Science’—will be launched early in 2018. Completing all three courses will give you a broader understanding of this fascinating topic. Look for:
• Philosophy, Science and Religion I: Science and Philosophy https://www.coursera.org/learn/philosophy-science-religion-1/
• Philosophy, Science and Religion III: Religion and Science
Upon successful completion of all three courses, students will:
(1) Understand the main parameters at stake in the current debate between science and religion.
(2) Have some familiarity with the relevant areas of science that feature in the debate—including cosmology, evolution, and the neurosciences—and will have begun to engage with them conceptually.
(3) Have encountered key philosophical approaches to the interface between science and religion, and will have had the opportunity to engage them in practice.
(4) Have embarked constructively in cross-disciplinary conversations.
(5) Have demonstrated an openness to personal growth through a commitment to dialogue across intellectual and spiritual boundaries.
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Philosophy, Science and Religion: Philosophy and Religion
proposé par
Université d'Édimbourg
Programme du cours : ce que vous apprendrez dans ce cours
Semaine
1Introduction 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.
2 vidéos (Total 7 min), 4 lectures
4 lectures
About this course10 min
Course assessments and exercises10 min
Course textbook10 min
Introductory Reading: Faith and Rationality10 min
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.
5 vidéos (Total 27 min), 2 lectures, 3 quiz
5 vidéos
Lecture 1.2: Religious Belief and Embodiment4 min
Lecture 1.3: Neural Correlates of Religious Belief7 min
Lecture 1.4: Religious Belief and the Cognitive Science of Religion8 min
Lecture 1.5: Religious Belief Disproved?3 min
2 lectures
Introductory Reading: Does Contemporary Neuroscience Debunk Religious Belief?10 min
Find out more...!10 min
3 exercices pour s'entraîner
Test your understanding4 min
Test your understanding2 min
Module Quiz6 min
Semaine
2Science 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.
5 vidéos (Total 45 min), 1 lecture, 6 quiz
5 vidéos
Lecture 2.2 - Possible conflict between religion and science4 min
Lecture 2.3 - Official Christian stances on the conflict9 min
Lecture 2.4 - Views on human origins12 min
Lecture 2.5 - Is the religious public in moral conflict with science?9 min
1 lecture
Religion and Science: Beyond the Epistemological Conflict Narrative10 min
6 exercices pour s'entraîner
Test your understanding4 min
Test your understanding2 min
Test your understanding2 min
Test your understanding4 min
Module Quiz6 min
Assess the reading critically10 min
Semaine
3Religious 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.
4 vidéos (Total 47 min), 3 lectures, 4 quiz
4 vidéos
Lecture 3.2 - Social epistemology23 min
Lecture 3.3 - Implications for religious epistemology9 min
Lecture 3.4 - Conclusion3 min
3 lectures
Introductory Reading: Are Theism and Atheism Totally Opposed?10 min
Further reading10 min
Testimony and the Transmission of Religious Knowledge10 min
4 exercices pour s'entraîner
Test your understanding!6 min
Test your understanding!6 min
Module Quiz6 min
Assess the reading critically2 min
Semaine
4The 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.
5 vidéos (Total 41 min), 2 lectures, 6 quiz
5 vidéos
Lecture 4.2 - Main objections to the argument6 min
Lecture 4.3 - Responses to the objections14 min
Lecture 4.4 - The relationship between religion and science7 min
Lecture 4.5 - Philosophy's contribution to the theism debates5 min
2 lectures
Introductory Reading: Is God Hidden, Or Does God Simply Not Exist?10 min
Divine Hiddenness and Human Philosophy10 min
5 exercices pour s'entraîner
Test your understanding6 min
Test your understanding2 min
Module Quiz6 min
Test your understanding4 min
Assess the reading critically2 min
4.6
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a bénéficié d'un avantage concret dans sa carrière grâce à ce cours
Meilleurs avis
par CW•Jun 10th 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.
par EM•Dec 8th 2017
Refreshing to be updated with the latest developments in epistemology and philosophy of religion among others.
Enseignants
Dr Orestis Palermos
Research ExplorerSchool of Philosophy
Dr Mark Harris
Senior Lecturer in Science and ReligionSchool of Divinity
Professor Duncan Pritchard
Professor of PhilosophyUniversity of Edinburgh
Dr J Adam Carter
ResearcherEpistemology - Philosphy
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