The Question Of Methodological Naturalism
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The Question of Methodological Naturalism
Author | : Jason N. Blum |
Publsiher | : BRILL |
Total Pages | : 308 |
Release | : 2018-09-11 |
Genre | : Social Science |
ISBN | : 9789004372436 |
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The Question of Methodological Naturalism offers ten essays on the role of naturalism in religious studies, ranging from sophisticated intellectual histories and philosophical analyses to trenchant denunciations and ringing endorsements. All have profound implications for the study of religions.
A History and Critique of Methodological Naturalism
Author | : Joseph B. Onyango Okello |
Publsiher | : Wipf and Stock Publishers |
Total Pages | : 246 |
Release | : 2016-07-21 |
Genre | : Religion |
ISBN | : 9781498283755 |
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Methodological naturalism is the thesis that only natural features can be factored into any legitimate explanation. Moreover, the thesis contends, any attempt to explain natural phenomena by appealing to supernatural features is unscientific and, therefore, illegitimate. This book argues that nothing inherently problematic afflicts possible appeals to supernatural agency in the attempt to explain select phenomena in nature. Reputable philosophers of the ancient and medieval periods, as well as prominent scientists of the early modern era, invoked supernatural agency in their attempts to understand nature. For them, miraculous interventions in nature by a supernatural agent were not unreasonable. However, the super-naturalistic worldview has been replaced by methodological naturalism. The assumptions of two pivotal figures--David Hume and Charles Darwin--brought about this change. This book shows that this change was motivated by unscientific means. Hence, the change itself remains inconsistent with the assumptions of methodological naturalism.
Naturalism and Its Alternatives in Scientific Methodologies
Author | : Jonathan Bartlett,Eric Holloway |
Publsiher | : Unknown |
Total Pages | : 300 |
Release | : 2017-04 |
Genre | : Science |
ISBN | : 1944918078 |
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While many books have covered the problems with naturalism and materialism in the sciences and academia, this is the first book to deal seriously with the question of what would replace it. How might scientific inquiry be different if it was no longer founded upon naturalism? This book is a collection of papers which aim to answer such questions.
A Companion to Naturalism
Author | : David Papineau,David Macarthur,Mario De Caro,Flávia Carvalho Chagas,Clademir Luís Araldi,José Eduardo Porcher,Nythamar de Oliveira,Fabrício Pontin,Felipe Karasek,Adriano Naves de Brito,Sofia Albornoz Stein,Ruth Garret Millikan,Evandro Barbosa,João Hobuss,Susana Nucettelli,Thomas Sukopp,Luís Rosa,Jack Ritchie |
Publsiher | : NEPFIL online |
Total Pages | : 283 |
Release | : 2024 |
Genre | : Electronic Book |
ISBN | : 9788567332345 |
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Offering a engaging and accessible portrait of the current state of the field, A Companion to Naturaslim shows students how to think about the relation between Philosophy and Science, and why is both essencial and fascinating to do so. All the authors in this collection reconsider the core questions in Philosophical Naturalism in light of the challenges raised in Contemporary Philosophy. They explore how philosophical questions are connected to vigorous current debates - including complex questions about metaphysics, semantics, religion, intentionality, pragmatism, reductionism, ontology, metaethics, mind, science, belief and delusion, among others – showing how these issues, and philosopher’s attempts to answer them, matter in the Philosophy. In this sense, this collection is also compelling and illuminating reading for philosophers, philosophy students, and anyone interested in Naturalism and their place in current discussions.
Understanding Naturalism
Author | : Jack Ritchie |
Publsiher | : Routledge |
Total Pages | : 192 |
Release | : 2014-12-05 |
Genre | : Philosophy |
ISBN | : 9781317493587 |
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Many contemporary Anglo-American philosophers describe themselves as naturalists. But what do they mean by that term? Popular naturalist slogans like, "there is no first philosophy" or "philosophy is continuous with the natural sciences" are far from illuminating. "Understanding Naturalism" provides a clear and readable survey of the main strands in recent naturalist thought. The origin and development of naturalist ideas in epistemology, metaphysics and semantics is explained through the works of Quine, Goldman, Kuhn, Chalmers, Papineau, Millikan and others. The most common objections to the naturalist project - that it involves a change of subject and fails to engage with "real" philosophical problems, that it is self-refuting, and that naturalism cannot deal with normative notions like truth, justification and meaning - are all discussed. "Understanding Naturalism" distinguishes two strands of naturalist thinking - the constructive and the deflationary - and explains how this distinction can invigorate naturalism and the future of philosophical research.
Where the Conflict Really Lies
Author | : Alvin Plantinga |
Publsiher | : Oxford University Press |
Total Pages | : 376 |
Release | : 2011-08-01 |
Genre | : Philosophy |
ISBN | : 9780199812103 |
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In this long-awaited book, pre-eminent analytical philosopher Alvin Plantinga argues that the conflict between science and theistic religion is actually superficial, and that at a deeper level they are in concord.
Naturalism
Author | : William Lane Craig,J.P. Moreland |
Publsiher | : Routledge |
Total Pages | : 303 |
Release | : 2002-01-04 |
Genre | : Philosophy |
ISBN | : 9781134564521 |
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Naturalism provides a rigorous analysis and critique of the major varieties of contemporary philosophical naturalism. The authors advocate the thesis that contemporary naturalism should be abandoned, in light of the serious objections raised against it. Contributors draw on a wide range of topics including: epistemology, the philosophy of science, the philosophy of mind and agency, and natural theology.
Naturalism Beyond the Limits of Science
Author | : Emery |
Publsiher | : Oxford University Press |
Total Pages | : 257 |
Release | : 2023-06-27 |
Genre | : Philosophy |
ISBN | : 9780197654101 |
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Philosophers and scientists both ask questions about what the world is like. How do these fields interact with one another? How should they? Naturalism Beyond the Limits of Science investigates an approach to these questions called methodological naturalism. According to methodological naturalism, when coming up with theories about what the world is like, philosophers should, whenever possible, make use of the same methodology that is deployed by scientists. Although many contemporary philosophers have implicit commitments that lead straightforwardly to methodological naturalism, few have a clear understanding of how widespread and disruptive methodological naturalism promises to be for the field. By way of a series of case studies involving laws of nature, composition, time and modality, and drawing on historical and contemporary scientific developments including the discovery of the neutrino, the introduction of dark energy, and the advent of relativity theory, this book demonstrates the ways in which scientists rely on extra-empirical reasoning and how that very same extra-empirical reasoning can yield surprising results when applied to philosophical debates. Along the way, Nina Emery's investigation illuminates the complex relationship between philosophy and the sciences, and makes the case that philosophers and scientists alike would benefit from a greater understanding of the connections between the two fields.