WHAT EPISTEMIC VALUES SHOULD WE RECLAIM FOR RELIGION AND SCIENCE - A RESPONSE

Postmodernism in science rejects and deconstructs the cultural dominan ce of especially the natural sciences in our time. Although it present s the debate between religion and science with a promising epistemolog ical holism, it also seriously challenges attempts to develop a meanin gful relationship between science and religion. A neopragmatist perspe ctive on religion and science is part of this important challenge and eminently reveals the problems and reduction that arise when pragmatis t criteria alone are used to construct a holism that renounces any dem arcation between different areas of rationality. In this pragmatist vi sion for a holist culture, the cognitive resources of rationality are bypassed in such a way that a meaningful interaction between theology and science becomes impossible.