Naturalism and Our Knowledge of Reality
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Author_R. Scott Smith
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Causal Covariation
cognitive science theory
Conscious Properties
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Direct Realism
direct realism analysis
Direct Realist Views
Dry Socket
Eliminative Materialism
epistemology philosophy
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Euthyphro Dilemma
Folk Psychology
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God's Character
God’s Character
Immaterial Entities
Intended Object
Intentional Stance
Logical Relations
Methodological Naturalism
methodological naturalism debate
MIT Press
Naturalism's Dominance
Naturalism’s Dominance
Nonreductive Physicalism
Ontological Resource
Papineau's Theory
Papineau’s Theory
phenomenal
Phenomenal Concept
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Quine's Thesis
realism
representationalism critique
science and religion interface
sense
Sense Datum View
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testing religious epistemic claims
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- ISBN 9781409434863
- Weight: 630g
- Dimensions: 156 x 234mm
- Publication Date: 28 Dec 2011
- Publisher: Taylor & Francis Ltd
- Publication City/Country: GB
- Product Form: Hardback
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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.
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.
