TS II: Science and Religion (fall 2021)

Assigned reading:

"The condemnation of 1277," in Edward Grant, ed., A Source Book of Medieval Science (1974), 45-50.

Pierre Duhem, "Letter to Father Bulliot, on science and religion (1911)," in Essays in History and Philosophy of Science (1996), 157-162.

Edward Grant, "Science and theology in the Middle Ages," in Lindberg and Numbers, eds., God and Nature: Historical Essays on the Encounter between Christianity and Science (1986), 49-75.

Pearl Kibre and Nancy Siraisi, "The Institutional Settings: The Universities," in Science in the Middle Ages, Lindberg, ed., 120-144.

Further reading:

John C. Briggs, "Bacon's science and religion," The Cambridge Companion to Bacon, ed. Markku Peltonen (1996), 172-199.

Geoffrey Cantor and Chris Kenny, "Barbour's fourfold way: Problems with his taxonomy of science-religion relationships," Zygon 36 (2001): 765-781.

R. Hooykaas, Religion and the Rise of Modern Science (1972).

Stanley Jaki, Science and Creation (1974).

William Wallace, review of Hooykaas, Archives internationales d'histoire des sciences 25 (1975): 154-156.

John Polkinghorne's extensive opus, including the Gifford Lectures.

Ian Barbour, Myths, Models, and Paradigms and Religion and Science and Religion in an Age of Science.

Weisheipl, James A., ‘The Nature, Scope, and Classification of the Sciences’ in Science in the Middle Ages, Lindberg, ed., 461-482.