The Blackwell Companion to Naturalism (Blackwell Companions to Philosophy)

The Blackwell Companion to Naturalism provides a systematic introduction to philosophical naturalism and its relation to other schools of thought. * Features contributions from an international array of established and emerging scholars from across the humanities * Explores the historical development of naturalism and its ascension to the dominant orthodoxy in the Western academy * Juxtaposes theoretical criticisms with impassioned defenses, encapsulating contemporary debates on naturalism * Includes discussions of metaphysics, realism, feminism, science, knowledge, truth, mathematics, free will, and ethics viewed through a naturalist lens

Kelly James Clark is a Senior Research Fellow at the Kaufman Interfaith Institute of Grand Valley State University in Grand Rapids, Michigan. He has published more than twenty books, including Religion and the Sciences of Origins: Historical and Contemporary Discussions (2014), The Story of Ethics: Fulfilling Our Human Nature (with A. Poortenga, 2002) and Return to Reason (1990).

List of Contributors ix Preface xii 1 Naturalism and its Discontents 1 Kelly James Clark 2 Naturalizing Ethics 16 Owen Flanagan, Hagop Sarkissian, and David Wong 3 Naturalism in the Continental Tradition 34 Keith Ansell Pearson and John Protevi 4 The Naturalism Question in Feminism 49 Ásta Sveinsdóttir 5 On Naturalistic Metaphysics 61 Thomas M. Crisp 6 Naturalism and Realism in the Philosophy Science 75 Matteo Morganti 7 Naturalism without Scientism 91 P. Kyle Stanford 8 "The Horrid Doubt": Naturalism and Evolutionary Biology 109 Valerie Gray Hardcastle 9 Naturalism and Antinaturalism in the Sociology of Science 124 Dorothea Olkowski 10 Why Methodological Naturalism? 136 Hans Halvorson 11 Naturalism and the Question of Realism 150 Drew Khlentzos 12 Non?]Naturalistic Metaphysics 168 Hud Hudson 13 Naturalism and Physicalism 182 Barbara Gail Montero and David Papineau 14 Natural Mind 196 Brian L. Keeley 15 Naturalism and Dualism 209 Joseph Levine 16 Epistemological Naturalisms 220 C.S.I. Jenkins 17 Dewey, Naturalism, and the Problem of Knowledge 234 Douglas McDermid 18 Truth and Naturalism 246 Douglas Edwards, Filippo Ferrari, and Michael P. Lynch 19 Against Naturalism about Truth 262 Berit Brogaard 20 Mathematics and Metaphysical Naturalism 277 Gideon Rosen 21 Naturalism and Mathematics: Some Problems 289 Jeffrey W. Roland 22 Naturalism and Free Will 305 Neil Levy 23 Free Will and Naturalism: How to Be a Libertarian, and a Naturalist Too 319 Kevin Timpe and Jonathan D. Jacobs 24 Does the New Wave in Moral Psychology Sink Kant? 336 Valerie Tiberius 25 Naturalism in Metaethics 351 Jussi Suikkanen 26 Evolution and Moral Naturalism 369 Richard Joyce 27 Scientific Naturalism and the Explanation of Moral Beliefs: Challenging Evolutionary Debunking 386 William J. FitzPatrick 28 What's to be Said for Moral Non?]Naturalism? 401 Terence D. Cuneo 29 Naturalism and Moral Psychology 416 Christian B. Miller 30 Militant Modern Atheism 435 Philip Kitcher 31 Why Naturalism Cannot Account for Natural Human Rights 447 Nicholas Wolterstorff 32 Cognitive and Evolutionary Approaches to Religion 462 Robert N. McCauley 33 The Naturalness of Religious Belief: Epistemological Implications 481 Helen De Cruz 34 Naturalism in Indian Philosophy 494 Amita Chatterjee 35 The Natural History of Shame and its Modification by Confucian Culture 512 Ryan Nichols Index 528