By William Lane Craig, J.P. Moreland
Naturalism presents a rigorous research and critique of the most important different types of modern philosophical naturalism. The authors recommend the thesis that modern naturalism could be deserted, in mild of the intense objections raised opposed to it. participants draw on quite a lot of themes together with: epistemology, the philosophy of technological know-how, the philosophy of brain and business enterprise, and common theology.
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Still, we will challenge this option. Could the methodological component of Core Scientism be a substantive Farewell to philosophical naturalism 19 necessary truth? The claim that it is implies that (a) there is a necessary nature, or essence, of every legitimate method of acquiring knowledge and (b) this essence makes the methodological component of Core Scientism a substantive necessary truth. Suppose, then, that the methodological component of Core Scientism is the correct description of such an essence and thus is a substantive necessary truth.
7 See Donald Davidson, “Mental Events,” in L. Foster and J. : University of Massachusetts Press, 1970), 79–101; and David Papineau, Philosophical Naturalism (Oxford: Blackwell, 1993). Roy Wood Sellars seems to endorse a version of this view, resting on “levels of causation” rather than supervenience, in The Philosophy of Physical Realism (New York: Macmillan, 1932). D. ), Contemporary Materialism (London: Routledge, 1995). For assessments of contemporary versions of nonreductive naturalism, including those of Davidson and Papineau, see Paul Moser, Philosophy After Objectivity (New York: Oxford University Press, 1993), chap.
The dilemma applied W. V. 11 Epistemology, by Quine’s lights, is but a chapter in the book of empirical psychology; so epistemology offers no encouragement to first philosophy. Quine’s own version of Core Scientism, his epistemological naturalism, is itself, however, an instance of philosophy prior to the empirical sciences. To meet this objection, Quine must show that his epistemological naturalism is a thesis or at least a warranted product of the empirical sciences. Quine does not discharge this burden, because the empirical sciences, as we have noted, do not make sweeping, monopolistic claims about the status of epistemology – even if an individual scientist makes such claims on occasion, in a moment of epistemological chauvinism.