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Einführung in die Methodologie : elementare allgemeine wissenschaftliche Denkmethoden im Überblick
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ISBN: 353405251X 9783534052516 Year: 1980 Publisher: Darmstadt Wissenschaftliche Buchgesellschaft

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Wetenschapstheorie : de empirische wending
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ISBN: 900110990X Year: 1989 Publisher: Groningen Wolters-Noordhoff

Verhandeling over de verbetering van het verstand
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ISBN: 9026307799 Year: 1986 Publisher: Baarn Ambo


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Spinoza's inleiding tot de filosofie : ethiek als verhuiskunde
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ISBN: 9085061482 9789085061489 Year: 2006


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A comprehensible universe : the interplay of science and theology
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ISBN: 1281513156 9786611513153 3540776265 3540776249 3642096379 9783540776246 9783540776260 9783642096372 Year: 2008 Publisher: New York : Springer,

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Why is our world comprehensible? This question seems so trivial that few people have dared to ask it. In this book we explore the deep roots of the mystery of rationality. The inquiry into the rationality of the world began over two-and-a-half-thousand years ago, when a few courageous people tried to understand the world with the help of reason alone, rejecting the comforting fabric of myth and legend. After many philosophical and theological adventures the Greek concept of rationality laid the foundations of a revolutionary way of thinking: the scientific method, which transformed the world. But looking at the newest fruits of the world's rationality - relativity theory, quantum mechanics, the unification of physics, quantum gravity - the question arises: what are the limits of the scientific method? The principal tenet of rationality is that you should never stop asking questions until everything has been answered ... "The Comprehensible Universe is a thoughtful book by two authors who have professional expertise in physics and astronomy and also in theology. They are exceptionally well informed about the history of the relation between science and theology, and they maintain throughout their discussion a respect for empirical evidence and a dedication to rationality. Even though I do not agree with all of their conclusions on matters of great complexity I am impressed by the fairness of their argumentation." Abner Shimony, Professor Emeritus of Philosophy and Physics, Boston University.


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The Oxford Handbook of Atheism
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ISBN: 9780198745075 9780199644650 0199644659 Year: 2013 Publisher: Oxford Oxford University Press

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Recent books by, among others, Sam Harris, Richard Dawkins, and Christopher Hitchens have thrust atheism firmly into the popular, media, and academic spotlight. This so-called New Atheism is arguably the most striking development in western socio-religious culture of the past decade or more. As such, it has spurred fertile (and often heated) discussions both within, and between, a diverse range of disciplines. Yet atheism, and the New Atheism, are by no means co-extensive. Interesting though it indeed is, the New Atheism is a single, historically and culturally specific manifestation of positive atheism (the that there is/are no God/s), which is itself but one form of a far deeper, broader, and more significant global phenomenon. The Oxford Handbook of Atheism is a pioneering edited volume, exploring atheism - understood in the broad sense of "an absence of belief in the existence of a God or gods" - in all the richness and diversity of its historical and contemporary expressions. Bringing together an international team of established and emerging scholars, it probes the varied manifestations and implications of unbelief from an array of disciplinary perspectives (philosophy, history, sociology, anthropology, demography, psychology, natural sciences, gender and sexuality studies, literary criticism, film studies, musicology) and in a range of global contexts (Western Europe, North America, post-communist Europe, the Islamic world, Japan, India). Both surveying and synthesizing previous work, and presenting the major fruits of innovative recent research, the handbook is set to be a landmark text for the study of atheism.

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