On trial for reason Science, Religion, and Culture in the Galileo Affair

Maurice A. Finocchiaro, Distinguished Professor of Philosophy (Emeritus), University of Nevada Las Vegas

Maurice Finocchiaro is a graduate of the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (B.S., 1964) and of the University of California-Berkeley (Ph.D., 1969); now Distinguished Professor of Philosophy (Emeritus), University of Nevada-Las Vegas. He is the recipient of awards from the National Science Foundation (1976-77 and 1998-2002), the National Endowment for the Humanities (1983-84 and 1992-95), the American Council of Learned Societies (1991-92), the Guggenheim Foundation (1998-99), and the International Society for the Study of Argumentation (2008). His books include Galileo and the Art of Reasoning (1980), Defending Copernicus and Galileo: Critical Reasoning in the Two Affairs (2010), Arguments about Arguments (2005), and Meta-argumentation (2013).

Preface and Acknowledgments
1. Introduction: Avoiding Myths and Muddles
2. When the Earth Stood Still
3. The Copernican Controversy (1543-1609)
4. Re-assessing Copernicanism (1609-1616)
5. The Earlier Inquisition Proceedings (1615-1616)
6. The Dialogue on the Two Chief World Systems (1632)
7. The Inquisition Trial (1632-1633)
8. Becoming a Cultural Icon (1616-2016)
9. Religion vs. Science?
10. A Model of Critical Thinking?
11. Some Final Thoughts
Further Reading and Cited Works
Notes