1st Edition

Analytic Philosophy Without Naturalism

Edited By Antonella Corradini, Sergio Galvan, E. J. Lowe Copyright 2006
288 Pages
by Routledge

288 Pages
by Routledge

In recent years numerous attempts have been made by analytic philosophers to naturalize various different domains of philosophical inquiry. All of these attempts have had the common goal of rendering these areas of philosophy amenable to empirical methods, with the intention of securing for them the supposedly objective status and broad intellectual appeal currently associated with such... Read more
List of Illustrations, Notes on Contributors, Preface, Acknowledgements, Introduction, Part I: Epistemology, 1. Reflection, 2. How naturalism implies skepticism, Part II: Ontology, 3. Aristotelian substances and the theoretical/practical dichotomy, 4. What is naturalism? What is analytical philosophy?, Part III: Philosophy of religion, 5. Contemporary cosmology and the existence of God, 6. The design argument: between science and metaphysics, Part IV: Philosophy of mind, 7. Rational selves and freedome of action, 8. Consciousness and freedome, Part V: Practical philosophy, 9. Naturalism, realism and objectivity in ethics, 10. Resisting naturalism: the case of free will, Bibliography, Index

Biography

A. Corradini is Professor of Philosophy of Social Sciences at the Catholic University of Milan, Italy.

S. Galvan is Professor of Logic at the Catholic University of Milan, Italy.

E.J. Lowe is Professor of Philosophy, University of Durham, UK.