R. Scott Smith

Naturalism and Our Knowledge of Reality (eBook, PDF)

Testing Religious Truth-claims

• Format: PDF

Produktbeschreibung

Philosophical naturalism is taken to be the preferred and reigning epistemology and metaphysics that underwrites many ideas and knowledge claims. But what if we cannot know reality on that basis? What if the institution of science is threatened by its reliance on naturalism? R. Scott Smith argues in a fresh way that we cannot know reality on the basis of naturalism. Moreover, the "fact-value" split has failed to serve our interests of wanting to know reality. The author provocatively argues that since we can know reality, it must be due to a non-naturalistic ontology, best explained by the fact that human knowers are made and designed by God. The book offers fresh implications for the testing of religious truth-claims, science, ethics, education, and public policy. Consequently, naturalism and the fact-value split are shown to be false, and Christian theism is shown to be true.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Taylor & Francis
• Seitenzahl: 254
• Erscheinungstermin: 22. April 2016
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781317089650
• Artikelnr.: 49352081

Autorenporträt

R.Scott Smith has written many articles and a monograph on Virtue Ethics. He specialises in ethics, phenomenology, philosophy of religion, and constructivism (especially in postmodernism, naturalism, and philosophical theology, including the emerging church as a practical extension). He teaches on these themes, including a graduate philosophy of religion class on naturalism, postmodernism, and constructivism.

Inhaltsangabe

Introduction
Part I Direct Realism
Chapter 1 An Introduction to Direct Realism
Chapter 2 The Representationalism of Dretske, Tye, and Lycan
Chapter 3 Searle's Naturalism and the Prospects for Knowledge
Part II Philosophy as Science
Chapter 4 Cognitive Science, Philosophy, and Our Knowledge of Reality, Part One
Chapter 5 Cognitive Science, Philosophy, and Our Knowledge of Reality, Part Two
Chapter 6 Can the Churchlands' Neurocomputational Theory of Cognition Ground a Viable Epistemology?, Errin D.Clark
Part III Other Alternatives, and Naturalism's Future
Chapter 7 Other Proposals, PeggyBurke
Chapter 8 The Future Directions of Naturalism
Chapter 9 A Positive Case for Our Knowledge of Reality
Chapter 10 Methodological Naturalism and the Scientific Method, and Other Implications