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Science: Child of technology? Epistemic norms and practical intelligence

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  1. The first part, “Cosmos: Child of Science? Theoretical Intelligence and Epistemic Norms,”International Journal for Philosophy of Religion 31: 149–163.

  2. For a fuller development, see myPhilosophy of Technology (Englewood Cliffs, NJ: Prentice-Hall, 1988), especially Chapter 2, “What is Technology?”

  3. See “Cosmos, Child of Science,” op. cit.

  4. Thomas S. Kuhn,The Copernican Revolution: Planetary Astronomy in the Development of Western Thought (Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press, 1966).

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  5. See myBasic Modern Philosophy of Religion (New York: Scribner, 1967), especially Chapter 3.

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This paper has been revised after presentation and discussion at the Cosmos and Creation Conference sponsored by Loyola College of Maryland, April, 1988. Thanks are due to the sponsors and to the excellent audience whose responses were important in the revision.

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Ferré, F. Science: Child of technology? Epistemic norms and practical intelligence. Int J Philos Relig 31, 165–176 (1992). https://doi.org/10.1007/BF01307990

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