The Justification of Science and the Rationality of Religious Belief

Part 1 The justification of science: Kuhn's challenge to the rationality of science - the structure of scientific revolutions, Kuhn's retreat, Kuhnian science-rational or irrational?; in defence of rational realism - the argument for rational realism, Wittgenstein, Rorty, Davidson and the sense of truth, is realism the best explanation?. Part 2 The rationality of religious belief: does philosophy of religion rest on a mistake? - on justifying religion, the expressive theory and its defence, intellectualism-the theory of "primeval stupidity", assessing the argument for the expressive theory, expressive or intellectualist?, the expressive theory and the facts, the case of religion; faith and the religious adequacy of explanatory justification - an argument from the motive for faith, the nature of faith, religion and decisive adherence; theism and inferring to the best explanation - an objection from the nature of explanation, Darwin and inferring to the best explanation, explanatory power and an objection to ad hocness, the place of simplicity; the problem of evil and the philosophy of science - the possibility of evil, the plausibility of evil, anomalies, puzzles and the propriety of mystery.