Karl Giberson and Mariano Artigas offer an informed analysis on the views of Stephen Jay Gould, Richard Dawkins, Edward O. Wilson, Carl Sagan, Stephen Hawking and Steven Weinberg; carefully distinguishing science from philosophy and religion in the writings of the oracles.

In science it is obvious that we are certain about many things, but among philosophers there is little agreement as to why we know these things. In Knowing Things for Sure physicist and realist philosopher, Mariano Artigas traces the confusion to non-realist philosophies and argues that practitioners of experimental science do reach logical truths about reality.

Fallibilism is a common view in contemporary epistemology. However, an examination of its philosophical basis and consequences shows that it requires some non trivial qualifications about its meaning.

Current knowledge on the dynamism and self-organization of nature allow a more solid foundation to establish cooperation between the fields of science and religion, as contemporary times demand. The structural and dynamic patterns found in natural processes can be considered as the storage and deployment of information guiding them. Philosophical reflection from these realities suggests the legitimate rethinking of intrinsic finality and of a renewed anthropocentrism that sees creativity as one of the main manifestations of human uniqueness.

Scientific truth, the unity of knowledge, scientism, and scientific progress , are topics that occupy a central place in the dialogue between science and faith. Fides et ratio illuminates them in the light of the present-day circumstances, and provides new philosophical and theological insights.

El trabajo precisa el significado de la finalidad en el mundo natural, mostrando su relevancia en la tarea de alcanzar intelectualmente a Dios. La propuesta se articula sobre las nociones de direccionalidad, cooperatividad y funcionalidad. A continuación se contrastan las nociones anteriores y la de finalidad con la cosmovisión que se deriva de nuestro conocimiento científico actual. Finalmente se muestra la continuidad de su propuesta con la tradición filosófica realista y la vigencia del argumento teleológico de Tomás de Aquino.