The Blackwell Companion to Naturalism provides a systematic introduction to philosophical naturalism and its relation to other schools of thought. _ Features contributions from an international array of established and emerging scholars from across the humanities _ Explores the historical development of naturalism and its ascension to the dominant orthodoxy in the Western academy _ Juxtaposes theoretical criticisms with impassioned defenses, encapsulating contemporary debates on naturalism _ Includes discussions of metaphysics, realism, feminism, science, knowledge, truth, mathematics, free will, and ethics viewed through a naturalist lens…mehr
The Blackwell Companion to Naturalism provides a systematic introduction to philosophical naturalism and its relation to other schools of thought.
_ Features contributions from an international array of established and emerging scholars from across the humanities _ Explores the historical development of naturalism and its ascension to the dominant orthodoxy in the Western academy _ Juxtaposes theoretical criticisms with impassioned defenses, encapsulating contemporary debates on naturalism _ Includes discussions of metaphysics, realism, feminism, science, knowledge, truth, mathematics, free will, and ethics viewed through a naturalist lens
Kelly James Clark is a Senior Research Fellow at the Kaufman Interfaith Institute of Grand Valley State University in Grand Rapids, Michigan. He has published more than twenty books, including Religion and the Sciences of Origins: Historical and Contemporary Discussions (2014), The Story of Ethics: Fulfilling Our Human Nature (with A. Poortenga, 2002) and Return to Reason (1990).
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List of Contributors ix
Preface xii
1 Naturalism and its Discontents 1 Kelly James Clark
2 Naturalizing Ethics 16 Owen Flanagan, Hagop Sarkissian, and David Wong
3 Naturalism in the Continental Tradition 34 Keith Ansell Pearson and John Protevi
4 The Naturalism Question in Feminism 49 Ásta Sveinsdóttir
5 On Naturalistic Metaphysics 61 Thomas M. Crisp
6 Naturalism and Realism in the Philosophy Science 75 Matteo Morganti
7 Naturalism without Scientism 91 P. Kyle Stanford
8 "The Horrid Doubt": Naturalism and Evolutionary Biology 109 Valerie Gray Hardcastle
9 Naturalism and Antinaturalism in the Sociology of Science 124 Dorothea Olkowski
10 Why Methodological Naturalism? 136 Hans Halvorson
11 Naturalism and the Question of Realism 150 Drew Khlentzos
12 Non?]Naturalistic Metaphysics 168 Hud Hudson
13 Naturalism and Physicalism 182 Barbara Gail Montero and David Papineau
14 Natural Mind 196 Brian L. Keeley
15 Naturalism and Dualism 209 Joseph Levine
16 Epistemological Naturalisms 220 C.S.I. Jenkins
17 Dewey, Naturalism, and the Problem of Knowledge 234 Douglas McDermid
18 Truth and Naturalism 246 Douglas Edwards, Filippo Ferrari, and Michael P. Lynch
19 Against Naturalism about Truth 262 Berit Brogaard
20 Mathematics and Metaphysical Naturalism 277 Gideon Rosen
21 Naturalism and Mathematics: Some Problems 289 Jeffrey W. Roland
22 Naturalism and Free Will 305 Neil Levy
23 Free Will and Naturalism: How to Be a Libertarian, and a Naturalist Too 319 Kevin Timpe and Jonathan D. Jacobs
24 Does the New Wave in Moral Psychology Sink Kant? 336 Valerie Tiberius
25 Naturalism in Metaethics 351 Jussi Suikkanen
26 Evolution and Moral Naturalism 369 Richard Joyce
27 Scientific Naturalism and the Explanation of Moral Beliefs: Challenging Evolutionary Debunking 386 William J. FitzPatrick
28 What's to be Said for Moral Non?]Naturalism? 401 Terence D. Cuneo
29 Naturalism and Moral Psychology 416 Christian B. Miller
30 Militant Modern Atheism 435 Philip Kitcher
31 Why Naturalism Cannot Account for Natural Human Rights 447 Nicholas Wolterstorff
32 Cognitive and Evolutionary Approaches to Religion 462 Robert N. McCauley
33 The Naturalness of Religious Belief: Epistemological Implications 481 Helen De Cruz
34 Naturalism in Indian Philosophy 494 Amita Chatterjee
35 The Natural History of Shame and its Modification by Confucian Culture 512 Ryan Nichols
