What is Scientism?

Religious Studies

Volumn 33, Issue 1, 1997, Pages 15-32

  Stenmark, Mikael ^a  

^a UPPSALA UNIVERSITY   (Sweden)

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EID: 84937260878     PISSN: 00344125     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1017/S0034412596003666     Document Type: Article

References (40)

1. See, for instance, Paul Churchland, Scientic Realism and the Plasticity of Mind (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1979), Daniel C. Dennett, Consciousness Explained (New York: Little, Brown, 1991), and Michael Ruse, Taking Darwin Seriously (Oxford: Blackwell, 1986).
2. Edward O. Wilson, On Human Nature (Cambridge, Mass.: Harvard University Press, 1978), p. 90.
3. Francis Crick, Of Molecules and Men (Seattle : University of Washington Press,1966), p. 14 and 98.
4. Tom Settle, You Can't Have Science as Your Religion in I. C. Jarvie and Nathaniel Laor (eds.) Critical Rationalism, Metaphysics and Science, Vol. 1. (Dordrecht: Kluwer Academic Publishers, 1995) p. 63.
5. Philip S. Gorski, Scientism, Interpretation, and Criticism Zygon, Vol. 25, No. 3. (1990), p. 279.
6. Loren R. Graham, Between Science and Values (New York: Columbia University Press, 1981), p. 6.
7. Ian Barbour, Religion in an Age of Science (New York: Harper & Row, 1990), p. 4.
8. Roger Trigg, Rationality and Science (Oxford: Blackwell, 1993), p. 90.
9. Michael Peterson, William Hasker, Bruce Reichenbach, and David Basinger, Reason and Religious Belief (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 1991), p. 36.
10. Rudolf Carnap, The Logical Structure of the World (Berkeley: University of California Press, 1967), p. 290.
11. Anders Jeffner, Livsacskacdningsforskning [Life-View Studies], (research rapport) (Uppsala, 1978), p. 46, my translation.
12. Bertrand Russell, Why I Am Not a Christian (London: Unwin Paperbacks, 1957), p. 44 (emphasis added).
13. Wilson, On Human Nature, p. 201.
14. Carl Sagan, Cosmos (New York: Ballantine Books, 1980), p. 105.
15. Sagan, Cosmos, p. 1.
16. Francis Crick, The Astonishing Hypothesis : The Scientic Search for the Soul (New York: Charles
17. Scribner's Sons, 1994), p. 3.
18. John F. Haught, Science and Religion (New York: Paulist Press, 1995), p. 17.
19. Richard Swinburne, The Existence of God (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 1979), p. 3.
20. Swinburne, Mackie, Induction, and God Religious Studies. Vol. 19, (1983), p 386.
21. Sorell, Scientism, p. 1.
22. Sorell, Scientism, p. 9.
23. Gerard Radnitzky, The Boundaries of Science and Technology in Proceedings of the Sixth Internal Conference on the Unity of the Sciences, The Search for Absolute Values in a Changing World, Vol. II (New York: The Internal Cultural Foundation Press, 1978), p. 1011.
24. Sorell, Scientism, p. 166.
25. Michael Ruse, Taking Darwin Seriously (Oxford: Blackwell, 1986), p. 256.
26. Wilson, On Human Nature, pp. 90 and 167.
27. Richard Dawkins, The Selsh Gene (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 1989 (2nd ed) [1976]), p. 1.
28. Dawkins quoted in Michael, W. Poole, A Critique of Aspects of the Philosophy and Theology of Richard Dawkins Science & Christian Belief, Vol. 6. No. 1, (1994), p. 58.
29. Stephen, W. Hawking, A Brief History of Time (London: Bantam Press, 1988), pp. 13 and 175.
30. Mary Midgley, Science as Salvation (London: Routledge, 1992), pp. 37 and 57.
31. Wilson, On Human Nature, p. 201.
32. Wilson, On Human Nature, pp. 3 and 192.
33. Wilson, On Human Nature, p. 195.
34. Wilson, On Human Nature, pp. 206-207.
35. Wilson, On Human Nature, p. 206.
36. Radnitzky, The Boundaries of Science and Technology, p. 1008.
37. Arthur Peacocke, Theology for a Scientic Age (Minneapolis: Fortress Press, 1993), pp. 7-8.
38. Settle, You Can't Have Science as Your Religion p. 63.
39. Rescher, The Limits of Science, pp. 3-4.
40. I would like to express my thanks to Philip Hefner for inviting me to the Chicago Center for Religion and Science (the time during which this article was written) and for his and my colleague Eberhard Herrmann's helpful comments on an earlier draft of this paper. I also gratefully acknowledge the nancial support of the Swedish Council for Research in the Humanities and Social Sciences which made my stay at the centre possible.