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Theism, naturalism, and scientific realism [PDF]

, 2017
Scientific knowledge is not merely a matter of reconciling theories and laws with data and observations. Science presupposes a number of metatheoretic shaping principles in order to judge good methods and theories from bad.
Koperski, Jeffrey
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‘A Polaroid of the Grail’: Will Self’s Approach to Naturalism

Études Britanniques Contemporaines, 2008
On October 17, 2002, Will Self and Jonathan Coe delivered two papers that strove to tackle the following question: ‘Is a true literary Naturalism possible or even desirable?’ Whereas Coe chose to tell the story of B.S.
Maylis Rospide
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Naturalism, Evolution and Culture [PDF]

, 2010
In my essay, I will argue that evolution does not undermine naturalism. This is because Alvin Plantinga’s evolutionary argument against naturalism rests on a false and unmotivated premise and is thus invalid.
Wittwer, Silvan
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Circularity, Naturalism, and Desire-Based Reasons [PDF]

, 2017
In this paper, I propose a critique of the naturalist version of the Desire-Based Reasons Model. I first set the scene by spelling out the connection between naturalism and the Model.
Tanyi, Attila
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God, design, and naturalism: Implications of methodological naturalism in science for science-religion relation

Pensamiento. Revista de Investigación e Información Filosófica, 2015
The aim of this paper is to analyze the implications flowing from adopting methodological naturalism in science, with special emphasis on the relation between science and religion.
Piotr Bylica, Dariusz Sagan
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Thick Naturalism: Comments on Zygon 2000

Zygon, 2000
The term naturalism arouses strong emotions; religious naturalism even more. In this essay, naturalism is explored in a variety of contexts, in contrast to supernaturalism (in metaphysics), normativism (in ethics and epistemology), and rationalism (in ...
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Methodological Naturalism in Metaethics [PDF]

, 2017
Methodological naturalism arises as a topic in metaethics in two ways. One is the issue of whether we should be methodological naturalists when doing our moral theorising, and another is whether we should take a naturalistic approach to metaethics itself.
Nolan, Daniel
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'A habitual disposition to the good': on reason, virtue and realism [PDF]

, 2015
Amidst the crisis of instrumental reason, a number of contemporary political philosophers including Jürgen Habermas have sought to rescue the project of a reasonable humanism from the twin threats of religious fundamentalism and secular naturalism.
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How Naturalism Refutes Itself: Pragmatist Challenges for Naturalism (William James and Charles Sanders Peirce)

Studia Philosophiae Christianae
This paper examines how radical naturalism, when defined as an ontological position grounded exclusively in the scientific method, is ultimately self-refuting.
Bartosz Wesół
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Naturalism and Anti-Naturalism in Nietzsche [PDF]

, 2013
Nietzsche has been associated with naturalism due to his arguments that morality, religion, metaphysics, and consciousness are products of natural biological organisms and ultimately natural phenomena.
Nelson, Eric S. Huma
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