EVIDENCE AND FALSIFICATION: CHALLENGES TO GREGORY PETERSON

Author: Jones, Nicholaos

Source: Zygon, Volume 43, Number 3, September 2008 , pp. 599-604(6)

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Abstract:

In this reply to Gregory Peterson's essay “Maintaining Respectability,” which itself is a response to my “Is Theology Respectable as Metaphysics?” I elaborate upon my claims that theology treats God's existence as an absolute certainty immune to refutation and that modern science constitutes the canons of respectable reasoning for metaphysical disciplines. I conclude with some comments on Peterson's “In Praise of Folly? Theology and the University.”

Keywords: evidentialism; falsification; metaphysics; scientific method; theology

Document Type: Research article

DOI: http://dx.doi.org/10.1111/j.1467-9744.2008.00942.x

Affiliations: 1: Assistant Professor of Philosophy, The University of Alabama in Huntsville, 332 Morton Hall, Huntsville, AL 35899;, Email: Nick.Jones@uah.edu.

Publication date: 2008-09-01