Publication details
Být pomalí jako želvy : k vědě symbiotické a pluralitní
| Title in English | To be slow as turtles : on science symbiotic and pluralistic |
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| Year of publication | 2019 |
| Type | Article in Periodical |
| Magazine / Source | Religio : revue pro religionistiku |
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| Web | článek - open access |
| Keywords | naturalism; protectionism; actor-network theory; object-oriented ontology; experimental science; Study of Religions; cognitive science; slow science |
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| Description | In this polemical article in the field of philosophy of science, the author identifies the essential problems of the naturalistic approach as it is presented in Juraj Franek's book Naturalismus a protekcionismus ve studiu náboženství (Naturalism and Protectionism in the Study of Religions; published in Czech in 2017). Franek argues that naturalism and protectionism are two irreconcilable approaches in Religious Studies. He also advocates the primacy of naturalistic science of religion and its reductionism. The author of this article shows that it is necessary to overcome the modernist divide between nature and culture (Bruno Latour) and to place the Study of Religions on an ontologically plural basis. He adapts Isabelle Stengers' theory, according to which science has to be "slowed down" and made symbiotic by re-establishing contact with the world of values and public interest. Object-oriented ontology (Jane Bennett, Graham Harman) is discussed as well. |