Certain leading thinkers in American philosophic tradition have positively engaged the nature of religion and conceptions of God in light of late modern developments in the natural and social sciences. In different, but curiously related ways, they construe both inquiry and the practice of humane living to be of a piece, uniting science and religion. They develop philosophical theologies and cosmologies in which value is an objective element of nature. This course will examine central essays of Charles Pierce on religion, scientific method, and cosmology; writings of John Dewey on the social and natural sciences, knowledge of value, and religion; and books of Alfred North Whitehead on science, religion, and a physical cosmology with God. Relevant books of the instructor will be used to bring the study up to date.