EVIDENCE AND FALSIFICATION: CHALLENGES TO GREGORY PETERSON
Author: Jones, Nicholaos1
Source: Zygon, Volume 43, Number 3, September 2008 , pp. 599-604(6)
Publisher: Blackwell Publishing
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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: 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.
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