Philosophy of Religion and Scientism Read Philip Kitcher’s “The Trouble with Scientism.”
Summarize the article in roughly 1 page, and then respond to it in roughly 1/2-page to 1 page with your own reflections, thoughts, and connections to course material.
Advocates of the doctrine of scientism believe that the boundaries of science (that is, typically the natural sciences) could and should be expanded in such a way that something that has not previously been understood as science can now become a part of science. Thus a possible synonym to scientism is scientific expansionism.
How exactly the boundaries of science should be expanded and what more precisely is to be included within science issue on which there is disagreement.
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