Naturalness of Belief (eBook)

New Essays on Theism's Rationality

Paul Copan, Charles Taliaferro (Herausgeber)

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2018
300 Seiten
Lexington Books (Verlag)
978-1-4985-7991-9 (ISBN)

Infos

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.

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Despite its name, "e;naturalism"e; 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 "e;at home"e; 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.

Autor

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.

Inhalt

ContentsIntroductionPart IThe Unnaturalness of Naturalism?1. Naturalism and Naturalness: A Naturalist’s PerspectiveGraham OppyPart IIFoundational Considerations2. Is Naturalism Natural?Charles Taliaferro3. The Contraction and Expansion of Naturalism and the Theistic ChallengeCharles Taliaferro4. Taking Philosophical Naturalism SeriouslyR. Scott Smith Part IIITheistic Belief, Science, and Naturalism5. In What Sense Might Religion Be Natural?Justin Barrett and Aku Visala6. Science, Methodological Naturalism, and Question-BeggingRobert LarmerPart IVAxiology and Naturalism7. Alienating Humanity: How Evolutionary Ethics Undermines Human RightsAngus Menuge8. Divine Commands, Duties, and Euthyphro: Theism and Naturalist MisunderstandingsMatthew Flannagan9. Beauty: A Troubling Reality for the Scientific NaturalistR. Douglas Geivett and James SpiegelPart VNaturalism and Existential Considerations10. Existential Arguments for Theistic BeliefClifford Williams11. Psychological Factors Contributing to Atheism: Bad Father Relationships and Just Bad Relationships as in Autistic Spectrum DisordersPaul C. Vitz12. The Cultural Implications of Theism versus NaturalismPaul Copan and Jeremiah J. JohnstonPart VINaturalism, Freedom, and Immortality13. Theism, Robust Naturalism, and Robust Libertarian Free WillJ.P. Moreland14. Naturalism, Theism, and Afterlife BeliefsJonathan Loose

Produkt-Details

• Erscheint lt. Verlag: 13.11.2018
• Co-Autor: Justin L. Barrett, Ronald Scott Smith, James S. Spiegel, Charles Taliaferro, Aku Visala, Paul C. Vitz, Clifford Williams, Paul Copan, Matthew Flannagan, Jeremiah J. Johnston, Robert Larmer, Jonathan J. Loose, Angus Menuge, J.P. Moreland, Graham Oppy
• Zusatzinfo: 1 Illustrations including: - 1 Tables.
• Verlagsort: Lanham
• Sprache: englisch
• Themenwelt: Geisteswissenschaften ► Philosophie ► Allgemeines / Lexika
• Themenwelt: Geisteswissenschaften ► Philosophie ► Philosophie der Neuzeit
• Themenwelt: Geisteswissenschaften ► Religion / Theologie
• Schlagworte: Atheism • Axiology • Cognitive Science of Religion • Command Theory • dennett • God • Metaphysics • Naturalism • Natural Theology • Philosophical theology • Philosophy of Religion • Plantinga • Religion • Theism • theistic belief
• ISBN-10: 1-4985-7991-4 / 1498579914
• ISBN-13: 978-1-4985-7991-9 / 9781498579919