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Science, Religion, and Society: Is the Truth Out There?

Spring Term, 2003: Monday, Wednesday, Friday 9:30 - 10:20 am, Chambers 322

Course Readings

Required Texts:

Polkinghorne, John C. 1999. Belief in God in an Age of Science. New Haven: Yale University Press. (ISBN: 0300080034)
Feynman, Richard P. 1999. Meaning of It All: Thoughts of a Citizen Scientist. Cambridge: Perseus Books. (ISBN: 0738201669)
Tambiah, Stanley J 1990. Magic, Science, Religion, and the Scope of Rationality New York: Cambridge University Press. (ISBN: 0521376319)
Biagioli, Mario ed. 1999. The Science Studies Reader New York: Routledge. (ISBN: 0415918685)
Barbour, Ian G 2000. When Science Meets Religion: Enemies, Strangers, or Partners? San Francisco: Harper Collins. (ISBN: 006060381X)

In addition to the above books, various articles will be required. Articles are available from the library electronic reserve, and are to be completed by the date assigned on the course schedule.

Articles:

Gould, S.J. 1997. Nonoverlapping magesteria. Natural History 106:16-22, 60-62
Cetina, Karin Knorr 1999. What is a Laboratory? In Epistermic Cultures: How the Sciences Make Knowledge, p. 26-45. Cambridge: Harvard University Press.
Escobar, Arturo 1994. Welcome to Cyberia: Notes on the Anthropology of Cyberculture. Current Anthropology. 35(3): 211-231.
Franklin, Sarah 1995. Science as Culture, Cultures of Science. Annual Review of Anthropology. 24: 163-184.
Leguin, Ursula 1982. Schrodinger's Cat. The Compass Rose. Gollancz.
Porter, Jennifer E. and Darcee McLaren 1999. Star Trek and Sacred Ground: Explorations of Star Trek, Religion, and American Culture. Albany: SUNY Press.

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