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The connections between science and civic culture in the Victorian period have been extensively, and intensively, investigated over the past several decades. Limited attention, however, has been paid to Irish urban contexts. Roman Catholic attitudes towards science in the nineteenth century have also been neglected beyond a rather restricted set of thinkers and topics. This paper is offered as a contribution to addressing these lacunae, and examines in detail the complexities involved in Catholic engagement with science in Victorian Belfast. The political and civic geographies of Catholic involvement in scientific discussions in a divided town are uncovered through an examination of five episodes in the unfolding history of Belfast's intellectual culture. The paper stresses the importance of attending to the particularities of local politics and scientific debate for understanding the complex realities of Catholic appropriations of science in a period and urban context profoundly shaped by competing political and religious factions. It also reflects more generally on how the Belfast story supplements and challenges scholarship on the historical relations between Catholicism and science.

Cover -- Half Title -- Series Page -- Title Page -- Copyright Page -- Contents -- Acknowledgements -- List of contributors -- Conjunctive Explanations in Science and Religion: An Introduction -- CONVERSATION I: Explanation in Science and Religion -- 1. Conjunctive Explanations: How Science and Religion Can Work Together -- Conjunctive Explanations: A Response -- 2. Agents as Difference Makers, or Why Many Human Actions Have Mental Causes -- Agents as Difference Makers: A Response -- CONVERSATION II: Designing Darwinism -- 3. The Telos of Darwin's Troubling Metaphor: Darwin's Pigeons, Dennett's Cranes, Fodor's Granny -- The Telos of Darwin's Troubling Metaphor: A Response -- 4. Asa Gray vs. Charles Darwin: Evaluating the Darwinian Case against Conjunctive Explanations -- Asa Gray vs. Charles Darwin: A Response -- CONVERSATION III: Irreducibilities, Material and Mental -- 5. God, Consciousness and Conjunctive Explanations -- God, Consciousness and Conjunctive Explanations: A Response -- 6. Complementary Causation and Emergence: A Substrate for Conjunctive Explanations -- Complementary Causation and Emergence: A Response -- CONVERSATION IV: Divine Causes and Mental Beliefs -- 7. A Conjunctive Explanation about Psychopathology? Hearing Voices, Psychosis and Religious Experience -- A Conjunctive Explanation about Psychopathology? A Response -- 8. A Conjunctive Explanation of the Mental Phenomenon of Christian Faith -- A Conjunctive Explanation of the Mental Phenomenon of Christian Faith: A Response -- CONVERSATION V: The (Im)possibility of Theological Explanations -- 9. Are Theological Explanations Superfluous? The Cognitive Science of Religion and Ockham's Razor -- Are Theological Explanations Superfluous? A Response -- 10. A Re-Evaluation of Non-Overlapping Magisteria -- A Re-Evaluation of Non-Overlapping Magisteria: A Response.