Document Type

Article

Keywords

Popper, Duhem, Hermeneutic Philosophy of Science, Patrick A. Heelan

Disciplines

Philosophy | Philosophy of Science

Abstract

This paper traces the demise of the demarcation between science and non-science by falsifiability in early Popper through sophisticated revisions which results in transforming Popperian falsifiability into a historical situated criticizability, and one which retains a Duhemian requirement of subjectivity. This transformation opens a revised Popperian standpoint to the disciplinary rationality of theology, with important implications for reconsidering the relation between science and religion. It is then concluded that a significant, intellectual relationship of either dialogue or convergence between science and theology requires something like Patrick Heelan's hermeneutical philosophy of science for the standpoint in-between science and religion.

Article Number

1043

Publication Date

2002

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