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A Blackwell companion to naturalism /
"Since the turn of the twenty-first century, naturalism has become one of the most prominent philosophical orthodoxies in the Western academy. Yet naturalism is more often assumed than defended. The Blackwell Companion to Naturalism offers a systematic introduction that defines, discusses and d...
| Clasificación: | Libro Electrónico |
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| Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
| Idioma: | Inglés |
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Chichester, West Sussex, UK ; Malden, MA, USA :
John Wiley & Sons, Inc.,
2016.
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| Colección: | Blackwell companions to philosophy.
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| Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
Tabla de Contenidos:
- Title Page; Copyright Page; Contents; List of Contributors; Preface; Chapter 1 Naturalism and its Discontents; Introduction; What Is Naturalism?; Naturalism and Science; Strict and Broad Naturalism; Methodological Naturalism; The Historical Development of Naturalism; Arguing for Naturalism; Naturalism and the Good; Evolution and Ethics; Discontents; The Shape of the Book; References; Chapter 2 Naturalizing Ethics; Introduction; Naturalism in the Broad Sense; Why Ethics Isn't Naturalized; Why Naturalize?; Understanding Morality; Naturalistic Epistemology and the Problem of Normativity.
- Naturalistic Ethics and the Problem of NormativityHume's Objection; Moore's Fallacy; Relativism and Nihilism; Ethics Naturalized: Pluralism and Human Ecology; Acknowledgments; References; Chapter 3 Naturalism in the Continental Tradition; Phenomenological Antinaturalism; Husserl's Antinaturalism; The Naturalizing Phenomenology Challenge; Jonas; Affirmative Naturalism; Nietzsche and Bergson; Deleuze; Antinaturalism in Critical Social Theory; Conclusion; Acknowledgments; References; Chapter 4 The Naturalism Question in Feminism; Introduction; Naturalist Commitments.
- Naturalism about All Normativity in Feminist HandsPragmatic Normativity?; Naturalism about Some Kinds of Normativity; Naturalism about a Specific Kind of Normativity; A Naturalist Move as Part of an Ideology Critique; Conclusion; References; Chapter 5 On Naturalistic Metaphysics; What Is Naturalism?; On Naturalistic Metaphysics; An Objection to Naturalistic Metaphysics; Reasons to Doubt the Doubts?; The "Miracle" Argument; We Should Expect Metaphysical Reliability from Creatures Capable of Abductive Reasoning; Help from Thomas Reid; Conclusion; References.
- Chapter 6 Naturalism and Realism in the Philosophy ScienceIntroduction; Naturalism and Scientific Realism; Empiricism, Naturalism, and Scientific Realism; Naturalism and the Status of the Scientific Realist Hypothesis; Naturalism, Metaphysics, and Science; Conclusion; References; Chapter 7 Naturalism without Scientism; Integrative Naturalism; Epistemic Instrumentalism; Philosophy of Science as Constructive Interpretation; Acknowledgments; References; Chapter 8 "The Horrid Doubt": Naturalism and Evolutionary Biology; Early Conflicts, 1692-1872; Contemporary Conflicts.
- The Evolutionary Argument against NaturalismImpact of the Debates; References; Chapter 9 Naturalism and Antinaturalism in the Sociology of Science; Sociology of Science; Laboratory Life; Robust Social Epistemology; The Division of Cognitive Labor; Knowledge and Knowledge-Productive Practices; Beyond Binaries; References; Chapter 10 Why Methodological Naturalism?; The Aims of Science; Defining Methodological Naturalism; Natural Things; Provisional Atheism; Motivating Methodological Naturalism; Intrinsic versus Provisional Methodological Naturalism.