The role of science, ethics and faith in modern philosophy ABSTRACT: Curiously, at the end of the 20th century, even agnostic cosmologists like Stephen Hawking, who is often than Einstein – pose metascientific questions about a Creator and the cosmos, which science itself cannot answer. Modern brain science, for example Roger Penrose's Shadows of the Mind (1994), is just beginning to explore the relationship between the brain and the mind: the physiological and the epistemic. Galileo thought that the two books of God, Nature and the Word, cannot be in conflict, since they both have a common author: God. This implies, among other things, that science and faith are two paths towards the God-Creator . David Granby recalls that science and religion were once perceived as complementary enterprises, and every scientific advance confirmed the greatness of a Superior God-Intelligence. Are we then on the threshold of a new era of fruitful dialogue between science and religion, mediated by philosophy in the classical sense? In this article I explore this question in more detail. The thesis of this essay is that philosophy finds itself at an important crossroads at the end of the twentieth century in its role as paideia: the philosophy that educates humanity. An unprecedented challenge and opportunity for philosophy today is to mediate and improve understanding of the relationship between science, ethics and faith. A central question arises: what can philosophy contribute to the emerging dialogue between science and theology? The emerging dialogue between science and theology is characterized by complexity and considerable confusion regarding appropriate methodologies, objectives, and possible interactions. There are at least three main schools, model... middle of paper... allacy. Reason (October): 53-58.Rust, Peter. 1992. How was life and its diversity produced? Perspectives on Science and Christian Faith 44(2): 80-94. Sternberg, Robert J. and Janet E. Davidson, eds. 1995. The nature of intuition. Cambridge, MA: MIT Press.Weber, Max. 1949. The methodology of the social sciences. Eds. Edward A. Shils and Henry A. Finch. Glencoe, IL: Free Press. Weinberg, Steven. 1992. Dreams of a Final Theory: The Search for the Fundamental Laws of Nature. New York: Pantheon Books.Wiester, John L. 1993. The True Meaning of Evolution. Perspectives on Science and Christian Faith 45 (3): 182-86.Wigner, Eugene P. 1960. The Unreasonable Effectiveness of Mathematics. Communications on Pure and Applied Mathematics 13: 1-14.Yates, Steven. 1997. Postmodern Creation Myth? An answer. Journal of Interdisciplinary Studies IX (1/2): 91-104.