Risk vs Logic. Karl Barth and Heinrich Scholz on Faith and Reason
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Lorenzo Fossati
Abstract
The paper analyzes a few questions of Heinrich Scholz on Karl Barth’s dialectic theology: is it possible to view theology as a science? What is the meaning of a ≪theological proposition≫? Which minimal formal constraints of meaningfulness shared with other sciences shall be observed in theological research? These issues are the necessary prerequisites for any rational discourse, hence for questions related to faith.
Abstract
The paper analyzes a few questions of Heinrich Scholz on Karl Barth’s dialectic theology: is it possible to view theology as a science? What is the meaning of a ≪theological proposition≫? Which minimal formal constraints of meaningfulness shared with other sciences shall be observed in theological research? These issues are the necessary prerequisites for any rational discourse, hence for questions related to faith.
Chapters in this book
- Frontmatter I
- Contents VII
- Preface IX
- Hilbert’s τ and ϵ in Proof Theory: a proof-theoretical representation of universal and existential statements 1
- Truths in Contemporary Set Theory 23
- Gödel, Searle, and the Computational Theory of the (Other) Mind 41
- Naïve Proof and Curry’s Paradox 61
- Exploring and extending the landscape of conjunctive approaches to verisimilitude 69
- Mental Causation and Nonreductive Physicalism, an Unhappy Marriage? 89
- On Grounding Arithmetic 103
- Risk vs Logic. Karl Barth and Heinrich Scholz on Faith and Reason 119
- On the Ontology of Biological Species 135
- Who is Afraid of Subjective Probability? 151
- Agent-causation and Its Place in Nature 159
- Quantified Modal Justification Logic with Existence Predicate 179
- The Case for Conceptualism 195
- Two days in the life of a genius 207
- Multiple Religious Belonging: A Logico-Philosophical Approach 241
- Definitions by Abstraction in the Peano School 261
- Intelligible Worlds 289
- Necessary Truths and Supervaluations 309
- The Wittgensteinian and the ontological (3-dimensional) reaction to the naturalistic challenge 331
- Measure-Entailment and Support in the Logic of Approximate Generalizations 341
- Bibliography 373
Chapters in this book
- Frontmatter I
- Contents VII
- Preface IX
- Hilbert’s τ and ϵ in Proof Theory: a proof-theoretical representation of universal and existential statements 1
- Truths in Contemporary Set Theory 23
- Gödel, Searle, and the Computational Theory of the (Other) Mind 41
- Naïve Proof and Curry’s Paradox 61
- Exploring and extending the landscape of conjunctive approaches to verisimilitude 69
- Mental Causation and Nonreductive Physicalism, an Unhappy Marriage? 89
- On Grounding Arithmetic 103
- Risk vs Logic. Karl Barth and Heinrich Scholz on Faith and Reason 119
- On the Ontology of Biological Species 135
- Who is Afraid of Subjective Probability? 151
- Agent-causation and Its Place in Nature 159
- Quantified Modal Justification Logic with Existence Predicate 179
- The Case for Conceptualism 195
- Two days in the life of a genius 207
- Multiple Religious Belonging: A Logico-Philosophical Approach 241
- Definitions by Abstraction in the Peano School 261
- Intelligible Worlds 289
- Necessary Truths and Supervaluations 309
- The Wittgensteinian and the ontological (3-dimensional) reaction to the naturalistic challenge 331
- Measure-Entailment and Support in the Logic of Approximate Generalizations 341
- Bibliography 373
