Philosophy, Science and Religion for Everyone

by Duncan Pritchard (Editor), Mark Harris

Philosophy, Science and Religion for Everyone brings together these great truth-seeking disciplines, and seeks to understand the ways in which they challenge and inform each other.

Key topics and their areas of focus include:

- Foundational Issues - why should anyone care about the science-and-religion debate? How do scientific claims relate to the truth? Is evolution compatible with design?

- Faith and Rationality - can faith ever be rational? Are theism and atheism totally opposed? Is God hidden or does God simply not exist?

- Faith and Science - what provides a better explanation for the origin of the universe--science or religion? Faith and physics: can they be reconciled? Does contemporary neuroscience debunk religious belief? Creationism and evolutionary biology - what constitutes science and what constitutes pseudo-science?

- Practical Implications - is fundamentalism just a problem for religious people? What are the ethical implications of the science-and-religion debate? What can Buddhism tell us about logic?



This book is designed to be used in conjunction with the free 'Philosophy, Science and Religion' MOOC (massive open online course) created by the University of Edinburgh, and hosted by the Coursera platform (www.coursera.org). This book is also highly recommended for anyone looking for a concise overview of this fascinating discipline.

Genres: Philosophy, Science, Religion, Nonfiction, Spirituality

180 pages, Paperback

Published July 28, 2017

About the author

Duncan Pritchard FRSE is Professor of Philosophy at the University of Edinburgh, UK. His main research area is epistemology, and he has published widely in this field, including the books Epistemic Luck (2005), Knowledge (2009), The Nature and Value of Knowledge (with A. Millar & A. Haddock, 2010), and Epistemological Disjunctivism (2012). In 2007 he was awarded a Phillip Leverhulme Prize for his research. In 2011 he was elected to a Fellowship of the Royal Society of Edinburgh

Reviews

[Victor Bolbot · Rating 4 out of 5]

A good aggregation of essays. Can be considered as introductory material to the topics related to philosophy, science, and religion. I would recommend it for use together with the relevant Coursera course.

[Douglas Perry, PhD · Rating 5 out of 5]

This is the official textbook to go with the course Philosophy, Science and Religion: Science and Philosophy produced by the University of Edinburgh and offered through Coursera. It is a helpful companion to the main course material, at once readable and enlightening.