• The Tension Problem

• Managing Contradictions

• Adjusting Content Vs Adjusting Attitude

• The Two Tables

• Tensions between Science and Religion

• Diminishing Solutions

• Anti-Realism to the Rescue?

• Descartes’ Solution

• Kuhn’s Solution: Kant on Wheels, Incommensurability

• Van Fraassen’s Solution: Literal Interpretation, Acceptance, Immersion

• Applying Constructive Empiricism to Religion: The Immersion Solution

• Stories with morals?

• Semantic conflict with epistemic consistency

• Inconsistency without Irrationality

• Literalism without Fundamentalism

Peter.Lipton@kings.cam.ac.uk