Author: Ronald N. Giere
Ronald N. Giere is professor emeritus of philosophy and a member and former director of the Center for Philosophy of Science at the University of Minnesota. In addition to many papers on the philosophy of science, he is the author of Understanding Scientific Reason (5th edition 2006), Explaining Science: A Cognitive Approach (1998), Science without Laws (1999), and Scientific Perspectivism (2006).
Scientists and Religious Faith
My focus in this article is not on science and religion in the abstract but on scientists and their particular religious views. In secular circles, mention of sc ientists and religious faith typically calls to mind prominent scientists who have been critical of religion: Richard Dawkins, Steven Weinberg, and Carl Sagan come to mind. Here …