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| Title: | How Successful is Naturalism?
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| Series: | (Publications of the Austrian Ludwig Wittgenstein Society; New Series 4) |
| Author: | Georg Gasser (ed) |
| ISBN: | 3938793678 : 9783938793671 |
| Format: | Hardback |
| Size: | 150x210mm |
| Pages: | 300 |
| Weight: | .58 Kg. |
| Published: | Ontos Verlag - June 2007 |
| List Price: | 62.99 Pounds Sterling |
| Availability: | In Print |
| Subjects: | Metaphysics & ontology |
Naturalism is the reigning creed in analytic philosophy. Naturalists claim that natural science provides a complete account of all forms of existence. According to the naturalistic credo there are no aspects of human existence which transcend methods and explanations of science. Our concepts of the self, the mind, subjectivity, human freedom or responsibility is to be defined in terms of established sciences. The aim of the present volume is to draw the balance of naturalism's success so far. Unlike other volumes it does not contain a collection of papers which unanimously reject naturalism. Naturalists and anti-naturalists alike unfold their positions discussing the success or failure of naturalistic approaches. "How successful is naturalism?" shows where the lines of agreement and disagreement between naturalists and their critics are to be located in contemporary philosophical discussion. With contributions by Rudder Lynne Baker, Johannes Brandl, Helmut Fink, Ulrich Frey, Georg Gasser & Matthias Stefan, Peter S.M. Hacker, Winfried Löffler, Nancey Murphy, Josef Quitterer, Michael Rea, Thomas Sukopp, Konrad Talmont-Kaminski and Gerd Vollmer.
Can Everything Be Rationally Explained Everywhere in the world?; Naturalism and Theism as Competing Traditions; How Successful is Naturalism? Talking About Achievements Beyond Theism and Scientism; How Successful is Naturalism?; Naturalised Philosophy of Science: A Cognitive Approach; Passing by the Naturalistic Turn: On Quine's Cul-de-Sac; The Heavy Burden of Proof for Ontological Naturalism; Reason, Red in Tooth and Claw: Naturalising Enlightenment Thinking; Naturalism and the First-Person Perspective; Which Ontology for Naturalists?; The Unmysteriousness of Consciousness: A Case Study in Naturalistic Philosophy; Indeterminacy of a Free Choice: Ontic, Epistemic, or Logical?; What Naturalists Always Knew About Freedom : A Case Study in Narrative Sources of "Scientific Facts".
