Science, Religion & Truth (Professor Peter Lipton)
Suggested Reading List
- Alvin Plantinga's When Faith and Reason Clash, along with Ernan McMullin's response and Plantinga's reply to that, all in Hull and Ruse (eds), The Philosophy of Biology, OUP 1998.
- You could also look at Stephen Jay Gould's recent book Rock of Ages, Ballantine 1999. But I won't be discussing any of this stuff directly.
- The most relevant reading is probably Richard Braithwaite's An Empiricist's View of the Nature of Religious Belief, but that may be hard to locate. It was originally published as a pamphlet as the Eddington Lecture of 1955 and has been reprinted as a Bobbs-Merrill Reprint, but I don't know that it has made it into any anthologies.
- Relevant in another way is Bas van Fraassen's The Scientific Image, OUP 1980, chapter 2, since I will appropriate some ideas from his constructive empiricism.