1st Edition

The Routledge Handbook of Liberal Naturalism

Edited By Mario De Caro, David Macarthur Copyright 2022
486 Pages
by Routledge

486 Pages
by Routledge

486 Pages
by Routledge

The central question of naturalism - the relation of philosophy to science - was one of the defining strands of twentieth-century thought and remains a major source of debate and controversy. Today many argue that philosophy should fold itself into the sciences, especially the natural sciences. Liberal naturalists argue that such scientific naturalism demands reductive and Procrustean conceptions... Read more

Introduction Mario De Caro and David Macarthur

Part 1: Historical Naturalisms and their Relation to Liberal Naturalism

1. Aristotle and Liberal Naturalism Riccardo Chiaradonna

2. Spinoza and Liberal Naturalism Alex Douglas

3. Hume and Liberal Naturalism Benedict Smith

4. Kant on Nature and Humanity Allen Wood

5. Nietzsche’s Naturalism: Neither Liberal Nor Illiberal Brian Leiter

6. Husserlian Phenomenology and Liberal Naturalism Andrea Staiti

7. Merleau-Ponty and Liberal Naturalism Jack Reynolds

8. Classical Pragmatism and Liberal Naturalism Steven Levine

Part 2: Theoretical Cousins of Liberal Naturalism

9. Quine’s Naturalism: Neither "Reductive" Nor "Liberal" Garry Ebbs

10. Wilfrid Sellars and Liberal Naturalism Willem De Vries

11. Foot and Liberal Naturalism Gabriele De Anna

12. Bernard Williams’s Liberal Naturalism Sophie-Grace Chappell

13. Price’s Subject Naturalism and Liberal Naturalism Lionel Shapiro

14. Relaxed Naturalism: A Liberating Philosophy of Nature Dan Hutto

15. Liberal or Radical Naturalism Joseph Rouse

16. Naturalism as a Stance Jack Ritchie

Part 3: Challenges for Liberal Naturalism

17. Pluralistic Realism and Liberal Naturalism Mario De Caro

18. Liberal Naturalism and God Fiona Ellis

19. Taylor and Liberal Naturalism Nicholas Smith

20. Can Selves be Naturalized? The Problem of Temporal Perspective Patrick Stokes

21. Liberal Naturalism, Ontological Commitment and Explanation Matteo Morganti

22. Naturalism with Chinese Characteristics Barry Allen

Part 4: Applications of Liberal Naturalism

23. Aesthetics and Liberal Naturalism: Art Up Close and Personal David Macarthur

24. Liberal Naturalism, Aesthetic Reflection and the Sublime Jennifer A. McMahon

25. Philosophy of Perception and Liberal Naturalism Thomas Raleigh

26. Ethics and Liberal Naturalism Hans Fink

27. Kantian Constitutivism and the Naturalistic Challenge Carla Bagnoli

28. The Rational Wolf: Moral Philosophy as Key to McDowell’s Liberal Naturalism Sofia Miguens

29. Rawls and Liberal Naturalism Paul Patton

30. Scientific Naturalism and Normative Explanation Robert Audi

31. Scientism and Liberal Naturalism Massimo Pigliucci

32. Liberal Naturalism and the Foundations of Psychoanalysis Talia Morag

33. Actualism as a Form of Liberal Naturalism Paul Redding

34. Critical Naturalism for the Human Sciences Daniel Andler

35. Jürgen Habermas and Liberal Naturalism Paul Giladi

36. Strawson and Non-Revisionary Naturalism Hans-Johann Glock

37. Hilary Putnam and Liberal Naturalism Massimo Dell’Utri.

Index

Biography

Mario De Caro is Professor of Moral Philosophy at Roma Tre University, Italy, and regularly Visiting Professor at Tufts University, USA. He has published five volumes in Italian and edited Interpretations and Causes. New Perspectives on Donald Davidson’s Philosophy (1999), Hilary Putnam’s volume Naturalism, Realism, and Normativity (2016) and, with Maria Silvia Vaccarezza, Practical Wisdom: Philosophical and Psychological Perspectives (Routledge, 2021).

David Macarthur is an Associate Professor in the Philosophy Department at the University of Sydney, Australia. He has co-edited three collections with Mario De Caro: Naturalism in Question (2004), Naturalism and Normativity (2010), and Philosophy in an Age of Science: Physics, Mathematics, and Skepticism (2012). He is editor of Pragmatism as a Way of Life: The Lasting Legacy of William James and John Dewey (2017).