Introduction
Knowledge, Belief, and the Impulse to Natural Theology
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 4516158 |
|---|---|
| Authors | F Vidal (0000-0002-2956-8607, Max Planck Institute for the History of Science), Bernhard Kleeberg (Justus-Liebig-Universität Gießen) |
| Year | 2007 |
| Volume | 20 |
| Issue | 3 |
| Pages | 381-400 |
| Publication date | 2007-09-01 |
| Peer Reviewed | Yes |
| Open Access | Yes |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | Science in Context (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 0269-8897 • E-ISSN: 1474-0664 |
| Publisher | Cambridge University Press (CUP) (PUBLISHER) |
| DOI | 10.1017/s0269889707001354 |
| OpenAlex | W1982004372 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 1 |
| References cited | 16 |
The title of this issue of Science in Context - "Believing Nature, Knowing God" - is intended to suggest the moral, emotional, and cognitive conditions in which the historical alliance of "nature" and "God" operated, and to make a more general point about knowing and believing. The production of scientific knowledge includes mechanisms for bringing about acceptance that such knowledge is true, and thus for generating a psychological state of belief. To claim to have knowledge of nature involves an attitude of belief in certain epistemic values, in the procedures associated with them, and in the results to which they lead. "Nature," both as a totality to be known, and as the sum of the results of research directed towards it, turns out to be an object of belief
Alliance · Cognition · Context (archaeology · Epistemology · Impulse (physics · Object (grammar · Political science · Religious belief · Sociology of scientific knowledge · Philosophy · Psychology · Religion, Ecology, and Ethics · Social Psychology · Theology and Philosophy of Evil
Natural theology
Models of ecological rationality
The Condemnation of 1277, God's Absolute Power, and Physical Thought in the Late Middle Ages
History of Christian Philosophy in the Middle Ages
Reason and Revelation in the Middle Ages.
Beyond the "Common Context"
The selection of the authors of the Bridgewater treatises
The Moral Authority of Nature
Radical Enlightenment
Medieval thought
Newtonianism and religion in the Netherlands
William Whewell, natural theology and the philosophy of science in mid nineteenth century Britain
The Nature of Nature in Early Modern Europe
Divine Design and the Industrial Revolution
Science and Apologetics in the Early Boyle Lectures
Wonders and the order of nature
| Unique citing works | 1 |
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| Citations per year | 0,5 |
| Citation span | 2024 - 2024 (1) |
| Citation velocity | recent |
| Highly cited | No |
| Citation types | Neutral: 1 |