The Naturalness of Belief

New Essays on Theism’s Rationality

Paul Copan, Charles Taliaferro (Herausgeber)

Buch | Hardcover

294 Seiten

2018
Lexington Books (Verlag)
978-1-4985-7990-2 (ISBN)

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This volume exposes naturalism’s unnaturalness and defends theism’s naturalness and greater explanatory power to account for wide-ranging phenomena in the world and human experience. A broadening of naturalism to accommodate these features means borrowing heavily from—and thus more closely resembling—a theistic worldview.

Despite its name, “naturalism” as a world-view turns out to be rather unnatural in its strict and more consistent form of materialism and determinism. This is why a number of naturalists opt for a broadened version that includes objective moral values, intrinsic human dignity, consciousness, beauty, personal agency, and the like. But in doing so, broad naturalism begins to look more like theism. As many strict naturalists recognize, broad naturalism must borrow from the metaphysical resources of a theistic world-view, in which such features are very natural, common sensical, and quite “at home” in a theistic framework.

The Naturalness of Belief begins with a naturalistic philosopher’s own perspective of naturalism and naturalness. The remaining chapters take a multifaceted approach in showing theism’s naturalness and greater explanatory power. They examine not only rational reasons for theism’s ability to account for consciousness, intentionality, beauty, human dignity, free will, rationality, and knowledge; they also look at common sensical, existential, psychological, and cultural reasons—in addition to the insights of the cognitive science of religion.

Paul Copan is professor and Pledger Family Chair of Philosophy and Ethics at Palm Beach Atlantic University. Charles Taliaferro is professor of philosophy at St. Olaf College.

Introduction

Part I: The Unnaturalness of Naturalism?

1. Naturalism and Naturalness: A Naturalist’s Perspective —Graham Oppy

Part II: Foundational Considerations

2. Is Naturalism Natural? —Charles Taliaferro

3. The Contraction and Expansion of Naturalism and the Theistic Challenge —Charles Taliaferro

4. Taking Philosophical Naturalism Seriously —R. Scott Smith

Part III: Theistic Belief, Science, and Naturalism

5. In What Sense Might Religion Be Natural? —Justin Barrett and Aku Visala

6. Science, Methodological Naturalism, and Question-Begging —Robert Larmer

Part IV: Axiology and Naturalism

7. Alienating Humanity: How Evolutionary Ethics Undermines Human Rights —Angus Menuge

8. Divine Commands, Duties, and Euthyphro: Theism and Naturalist Misunderstandings —Matthew Flannagan

9. Beauty: A Troubling Reality for the Scientific Naturalist —R. Douglas Geivett and James Spiegel

Part V: Naturalism and Existential Considerations

10. Existential Arguments for Theistic Belief —Clifford Williams

11. Psychological Factors Contributing to Atheism: Bad Father Relationships and Just Bad Relationships as in Autistic Spectrum Disorders —Paul C. Vitz

12. The Cultural Implications of Theism versus Naturalism —Paul Copan and Jeremiah J. Johnston

Part VI: Naturalism, Freedom, and Immortality

13. Theism, Robust Naturalism, and Robust Libertarian Free Will —J.P. Moreland

14. Naturalism, Theism, and Afterlife Beliefs —Jonathan Loose

Erscheinungsdatum	10.05.2021
Co-Autor	Clifford Williams, Paul C. Vitz, Aku Visala
Zusatzinfo	1 tables;
Sprache	englisch
Maße	157 x 239 mm
Gewicht	612 g
Themenwelt	Geisteswissenschaften ► Philosophie ► Philosophie der Neuzeit
Themenwelt	Geisteswissenschaften ► Religion / Theologie
ISBN-10	1-4985-7990-6 / 1498579906
ISBN-13	978-1-4985-7990-2 / 9781498579902
Zustand	Neuware