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Title: Social Science and Religion: Epistemology, Metaphysics and Considerations of the Public Good.
Author : Forum on Public Policy: A Journal of the Oxford Round Table
Release Date : January 22, 2008
Genre: Law,Books,Professional & Technical,
Pages : * pages
Size : 310 KB

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Introduction Recently there has been much publicised debate over the 'God is dead' issue, featuring Richard Dawkins (2006), Christopher Hitchins (2007), Sam Harris (2007) and others, but at least in the social sciences this is not the nub of the 'science versus religion' issue. While overt discussion of theistic religion does have its relevance to various aspects of social science (see Thomas Friedman, 2005), a more deep-seated methodological relevance can be found in a different conception of 'faith' positions in the form of implicit a prioris or metaphysical positions inescapably embedded in contending social science perspectives. It is dispute over these a prioris that underpins disagreements between contending schools of social science thought, and it is dispute over these a priori or metaphysical positions that represents the core of the relationship between religion and social science.