Abstract
In his three books J. Wentzel van Huyssteen develops a complex and helpful notion of rationality, avoiding the extremes of foundationalism and postmodern relativism and deconstruction. Drawing from several postmodern philosophers of science and evolutionary epistemologists who seek to devise a usable notion of rationality, he weaves together a view that allows for a genuine duet betweenscience and theology. In the process he challenges much contemporary nonfoundationalist theology as well as the philosophical naïveté of some cosmologists and sociobiologists.
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Larry Laudan, William Stoeger, Nicholas Rescher, Harold Brown, evolutionary epistemology, Calvin Schrag, John Milbank, Ronald Thiemann, Susan Haack, Imre Lakatos, fideism, Joseph Rouse, Mikael Stenmark, critical realism, postfoundationalism, Nancey Murphy, J. Wentzel van Huyssteen, transversality, postmodernism
How to Cite
Stone, J., (2000) “J. Wentzel van Huyssteen: Refiguring Rationality in the Postmodern Age”, Zygon: Journal of Religion and Science 35(2), 415–426. doi: https://doi.org/10.1111/0591-2385.00284
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