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Faith and reason

Here are entered works on the role of reason in religious faith and on the conflict between faith and reason.

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• Reason

• Faith and reason -- Christianity
• Faith and reason -- Islam
• Faith and reason -- Judaism

• Faith and logic
• Logic and faith
• Reason and faith
• Reason and religion
• Reason -- Religious aspects
• Religion and reason
• Faith and rationality

• The Certainty of Faith (St. Catharines, ON: Paideia Press, c1980), by Herman Bavinck, trans. by Harry der Nederlanden (page images at ptsem.edu)
• Correspondance d'un Sceptique et d'un Croyant (published anonymously but attributed in some contemporary reviews; in French; Geneva et al.: H. Georg, 1881), by Gustave de Bonstetten and Ernest Naville
  • page images at HathiTrust
  • multiple formats at Google; US access only
  • multiple formats at archive.org

• Faith, Reason and Philosophy: Lectures at the al-Azhar, Qum, Tehran, Lahore and Beijing (with the encyclical letter Fides et Ratio included as an appendix; Washington: Council for Research in Values and Philosophy, c2000), by George F. McLean, contrib. by Pope John Paul II (PDF at crvp.org)
• Encyclical Letter, Fides et Ratio, of the Supreme Pontiff John Paul II: To the Bishops of the Catholic Church on the Relationship Between Faith and Reason, by Pope John Paul II (HTML at the Vatican)
• The Tragic Sense of Life in Men and in Peoples (London: Macmillan and Co., 1921), by Miguel de Unamuno, trans. by J. E. Crawford Flitch, contrib. by Salvador de Madariaga (multiple formats at archive.org)

• Faith, Reason and Philosophy: Lectures at the al-Azhar, Qum, Tehran, Lahore and Beijing (with the encyclical letter Fides et Ratio included as an appendix; Washington: Council for Research in Values and Philosophy, c2000), by George F. McLean, contrib. by Pope John Paul II (PDF at crvp.org)

• Judaic Logic: A Formal Analysis of Biblical, Talmudic and Rabbinic Logic (1997), by Avi Sion (frame-dependent HTML at thelogician.net)

Items below (if any) are from related and broader terms.

• Rationality: From AI to Zombies (2015), by Eliezer Yudkowsky (HTML at readthesequences.com)
• History, Man, and Reason: A Study in Nineteenth-Century Thought (originally published 1971; open access edition Baltimore: Johns Hopkins University Press, 2019), by Maurice Mandelbaum (multiple formats with commentary at Project MUSE)
• The Critique of Pure Reason, by Immanuel Kant, trans. by J. M. D. Meiklejohn (Gutenberg text)
• Understanding Stupidity: An Analysis of the Premaladaptive Beliefs and Behavior of Institutions and Organizations, by James F. Welles (HTML at mensch.net)
• Verstand und Erfahrung: Eine Metakritik zur Kritik der Reinen Vernunft (2 volumes in German; 1799), by Johann Gottfried Herder
  • Volume 1: multiple formats at Google
  • Volume 2: multiple formats at Google
  • both volumes: page images at HathiTrust

• The Assembly of Gods, ed. by Jane Chance (HTML at metseditions.org)

• Leaves of Grass, by Walt Whitman (multiple editions)

• What Matters Now (2009), ed. by Seth Godin (PDF with commentary at typepad.com)

• Deep Thinking, by Hârun Yahya (multiple formats at harunyahya.info)

• The Critique of Practical Reason, by Immanuel Kant, trans. by Thomas Kingsmill Abbott (Gutenberg text)

• An Illustrated Book of Bad Arguments (prepublication version, 2013), by Ali Almossawi, illust. by Alejandro Giraldo (illustrated HTML at bookofbadarguments.com)
• A Fortiori Logic: Innovations, History and Assessments (first edition; Geneva: The author, 2013), by Avi Sion (HTML at thelogician.net)
• How to Think Straight (Totowa, NJ: Littlefield, Adams and Co., 1975), by James D. Weinland (page images at HathiTrust)
• The Place of Reason in Education (Columbus, OH: Ohio State University Press, 1967), by Bertram Bandman (PDF at Ohio State)
• Future Logic: Categorical and Conditional Deduction and Induction of the Natural, Temporal, Extensional, and Logical Modalities (1996), by Avi Sion (frame-dependent HTML at thelogician.net)
• A Logic of Facts: or, Every-Day Reasoning (London: F. Farrah, 1866), by George Jacob Holyoake (Gutenberg text)
• Plato's Euthydemus: Analysis of What Is and Is Not Philosophy (Berkeley: University of California Press, 1992), by Thomas H. Chance (HTML at UC Press)
• An Experiment in the Development of Critical Thinking (Teachers College, Columbia University Contributions to Education #843; 1941), by Edward M. Glaser (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• The Technique of Controversy: Principles of Dynamic Logic (New York: Harcourt, Brace, and Co., 1928), by Boris B. Bogoslovsky (page images at HathiTrust)
• The Art of Logical Thinking: or, The Laws of Reasoning (Chicago: The Progress Company, 1909), by William Walker Atkinson
  • multiple formats at archive.org
  • page images at HathiTrust
  • multiple formats at Google; US access only
  • Gutenberg text
• Of the Conduct of the Understanding, by John Locke (HTML with commentary at Wayback Machine)
• The Limits of Mathematics, by Gregory J. Chaitin (illustrated HTML at Maine)

• Parmenides, by Plato, trans. by Benjamin Jowett (Gutenberg text)

• The Physical and Metaphysical Works of Lord Bacon, Including His Dignity and Advancement of Learning, in Nine Books, and His Novum Organum, or, Precepts for the Interpretation of Nature (London: Henry G. Bohn, 1853), by Francis Bacon, ed. by Joseph Devey (multiple formats at archive.org)

• Quantitative Reasoning for College Graduates: A Complement to the Standards (c1998), ed. by Linda Sons (HTML at Wayback Machine)
• Thinking and Writing in College: A Naturalistic Study of Students in Four Disciplines (c1990), by Barbara E. Fassler Walvoord and Lucille Parkinson McCarthy, contrib. by Virginia Johnson Anderson, John R. Breihan, Susan Robison, and A. Kimbrough Sherman (PDF files with commentary at colostate.edu)

• Kant, Ontology, and the A Priori (Evanston: Northwestern University Press, c1968), by Moltke S. Gram (PDF with commentary at Northwestern)

• The Being of Analogy (London: Open Humanities Press, 2016), by Noah Roderick (PDF with commentary at Open Humanities Press)

• An Illustrated Book of Bad Arguments (prepublication version, 2013), by Ali Almossawi, illust. by Alejandro Giraldo (illustrated HTML at bookofbadarguments.com)

• The Art of Insight in Science and Engineering: Mastering Complexity (Cambridge, MA and London: MIT Press, c2014), by Sanjoy Mahajan (PDF with commentary at MIT Press)
• Street-Fighting Mathematics: The Art of Educated Guessing and Opportunistic Problem Solving (Cambridge, MA and London: MIT Press, c2010), by Sanjoy Mahajan (PDF with commentary at MIT Press)

• Future Logic: Categorical and Conditional Deduction and Induction of the Natural, Temporal, Extensional, and Logical Modalities (1996), by Avi Sion (frame-dependent HTML at thelogician.net)
• The New Organon, and Related Writings (Indianapolis and New York: Library of Liberal Arts, pub. by Bobbs-Merrill Co., c1960), by Francis Bacon, ed. by F. H. Anderson (page images at HathiTrust)
• Inference, Explanation, and Other Frustrations: Essays in the Philosophy of Science (Berkeley: University of California Press, 1992), ed. by John Earman (HTML at UC Press)

• Elements of Causal Inference: Foundations and Learning Algorithms (Cambridge, MA and London: MIT Press, c2017), by Jonas Peters, Dominik Janzing, and Bernhard Schölkopf (PDF with commentary at MIT Press)
• Inference, Explanation, and Other Frustrations: Essays in the Philosophy of Science (Berkeley: University of California Press, 1992), ed. by John Earman (HTML at UC Press)
• The Elements of Statistical Learning: Data Mining, Inference, and Prediction (second edition, 2009), by Trevor Hastie, Robert Tibshirani, and J. H. Friedman (PDF with commentary at Stanford)

• Der Hermeneutische Syllogismus in der Talmudischen Litteratur: Ein Beitrag zur Geschichte der Logik im Morgenlande (in German; Karlsruhe: J. Bielefeld, 1901), by Adolf Schwarz
  • multiple formats at Google; US access only
  • multiple formats at archive.org
  • page images at HathiTrust; US access only
• Die Syllogistik des Aristoteles (3 volumes in 1; in German; Tubingen: H. Laupp, 1896-1900), by Heinrich Maier (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)

• Assetization: Turning Things into Assets in Technoscientific Capitalism (Cambridge, MA: MIT Press, c2020), ed. by Kean Birch and Fabian Muniesa (PDF files with commentary at MIT Press Direct)

• Mastering the Information Age: Solving Problems With Visual Analytics (c2010), ed. by Daniel Keim, Jörn Kohlhammer, Geoffrey Ellis, and Mansmann Florian (PDF with commentary at vismaster.eu)

• The Burden of God: Studies in Wisdom and Civilization from the Book of Ecclesiastes (c1993), by Michael W. Kelley (PDF at Contra Mundum)
• La Sagesse et la Destinée (in French; 1908), by Maurice Maeterlinck (Gutenberg text)

More items available under broader and related terms at left.