De Caro and Macarthur's ambitious collection "Naturalism in
Question" is a call to arms for opponents of the set of related
doctrines that constitute scientific naturalism. It includes
critiques of these doctrines from such luminaries as Barry Stoud,
Hilary Putnam, John McDowell, Donald Davidson, Jennifer Hornsby,
and Stanley Cavell, among others. Scientific naturalism is, in a
nutshell, the view that the physical sciences should be given pride
of place in our ontological, epistemological, and semantic
endeavors. Operationally, this involves requiring that the
concepts, posits, and methodologies of disciplines outside the
physical sciences be shown to be suitably related to scientific
concepts, posits, and methodologies, or be judged suspect. And
suitable relatedness to the physical sciences is more often than
not taken to require some form of reducibility..."Naturalism in
Question" contains a number of gems.--Peter Alward"Philosophy in
Review" (02/06/2006)
De Caro and Macarthur's edited collection "Naturalism in Question"
is a timely contribution which questions the nature and status of
naturalism and hints at alternative conceptions to the influential
widespread "scientific" form.--Tim Thornton"History and Philosophy
of Life Sciences" (01/01/2007)
It is a remarkably congenial collection of papers by a
distinguished lineup of philosophers. There are two different types
of argument to be found in these papers. The first shows how an
uncritical adoption of this orthodox naturalist institution either
misconstrues or underdetermines phenomena such as science itself,
the mind, agency, ethics, and personal identity. On the second
line, what is needed to avoid straying into the impasses of
underdetermination (as the orthodox naturalist does) and dualism
(as the normativist does) is a fresh and unbiased look at our
conception of 'nature, ' 'the natural, ' 'naturalism, ' and kindred
concepts such as those of 'dispositions, ' 'causation, ' and
'science'...The result is a critical view of the explanans that is
taken for granted by the orthodox naturalist, and used by the
normativist as a foil for defining normative relations. Pursuing
this line of argument is necessary if we want to avoid the
shortcomings of both orthodox naturalist and nor
De Caro and Macarthur's ambitious collection Naturalism in Question
is a call to arms for opponents of the set of related doctrines
that constitute scientific naturalism. It includes critiques of
these doctrines from such luminaries as Barry Stoud, Hilary Putnam,
John McDowell, Donald Davidson, Jennifer Hornsby, and Stanley
Cavell, among others. Scientific naturalism is, in a nutshell, the
view that the physical sciences should be given pride of place in
our ontological, epistemological, and semantic endeavors.
Operationally, this involves requiring that the concepts, posits,
and methodologies of disciplines outside the physical sciences be
shown to be suitably related to scientific concepts, posits, and
methodologies, or be judged suspect. And suitable relatedness to
the physical sciences is more often than not taken to require some
form of reducibility... Naturalism in Question contains a number of
gems.
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