Science and Religion in Contemporary Philosophy. E. Boutroux , Jonathan Nield

Contemporary Philosophy of Science and Neoinstitutional Thought

Philosophy of Philosophy of Religion

Berkeley's Philosophy of Religion

Like most of the great early modern philosophers, George Berkeley was not a university professor. He pursued, instead, a career in the clergy of the Anglican Church of Ireland. Berkeley was ordained in 1710, the same year he published his Treatise on the Principles of Human Knowledge (Berman 1994, 17). His first clerical post was as chaplain to Lord Peterborough from 1713-1714 (80). From here, ...

Religion and Fertility in Contemporary Northern Ireland

Northern Ireland has been and continues to be deeply divided on the basis of religion. This paper examines and compares contemporary fertility in the two communities given the sharp declines that have occurred in recent decades. The data are drawn from the Northern Ireland Longitudinal Study and cover 108,000 women aged 16-44 in the period 1997-2007. A logit analysis of births in the period is ...

Historical Development of Method in Science and Philosophy

  The development and growth of science is based on method. Aristotle treated this issue seriously and formulated logic. Muslim thinkers accepted the comprehensibility of his idea and during some centuries developed it and exported to the west. During the last three centuries of the Middle Ages the issue of method was followed up seriously and induction enjoyed more importance. The scientific ...