Scientism Is Not Science
Scientism, Science, and Technology Scientism is not science but an ideology that reduces man’s hope and aspiration to the scientific method. Scientism promises postmodern man an alarming…
Christian Faith and Friendship in the Academy
I thank the organizers for inviting me to discuss our theme, how Christian faith can inform friendships in the academy. As I begin, I would invite all…
Review Maladies of Modernity: Scientism and the Deformation of Political Order
Maladies of Modernity: Scientism and the Deformation of Political Order. David Whitney. South Bend, IN: St. Augustine’s Press, 2019. David Whitney’s Maladies of Modernity: Scientism and…
Review of Maladies of Modernity: Scientism and the Deformation of Political Order
Maladies of Modernity: Scientism and the Deformation of Political Order. David Whitney. South Bend, IN: St. Augustine Press, 2019. David Whitney’s excellent critique of what he…
The Persistence of Scientism: A Response to the Winegards
“The most dangerous state in the growth of civilization may well be that in which man has come to regard all these beliefs as superstitions and refuses…
The Critique of Scientism in Defense of the Political Community (Part III)
Beyond Scientism and Towards Political Community Scruton and Walsh, through an examination of scientism in relation to the person, have argued for the irreplaceable dignity of the…
The Critique of Scientism in Defense of the Political Community (Part II)
Walsh and Scientism The methodology of scientism described by Scruton in the preceding chapter points to the rejection of limitation for persons. Limitation, understood as the framework…
The Critique of Scientism in Defense of the Political Community (Part I)
The Person and Scientism The potential for human beings to achieve political success, as defined by the formation and maintenance of prosperous communities, can only be fulfilled…
Salvation Through Science? Bacon’s New Atlantis and Transhumanism
The interplay between politics and science is certainly not a new phenomenon, but astonishing scientific advances in medicine and technology during the 20th century, and into the…
Alasdair Macintyre, Charles Taylor, and the Demise of Naturalism
Alasdair Macintyre, Charles Taylor, and the Demise of Naturalism. Review of Jason Blakely. Notre Dame University Press, 2016. Jason Blakely’s Alasdair Macintyre, Charles Taylor, and the…
The Recovery of Science in Eric Voegelin’s Thought
The debate about scientism (also referred to as positivism or scientific reductionism) is an argument over the validity of applying the methods of the natural sciences to…
Absolute Space and Relativity
The loss of the concrete is substantially a spiritual disease. With the thinning out of faith into a reverential attitude toward symbols, the meaning of the symbols…
Examining the Role of Naturalism in Science
The Nature of Nature: Examining the Role of Naturalism in Science. Bruce L. Gordon and William A. Dembski, eds. Wilmington, DE: Intercollegiate Studies Institute Books, 2011. …
Max Weber and Positivism
The movement of methodology, as far as political science is concerned, ran to the end of its immanent logic in the person and work of Max Weber.…