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The Problem of Naturalism
eBook - Analytic Perspectives, Continental Virtues
ISBN/EAN: 9780739183991
Umbreit-Nr.: 2120485
Sprache:
Englisch
Umfang: 178 S.
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Erschienen am 09.05.2013
Auflage: 1/2013
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Philosophers often use the term naturalism in order to describe their work. It is commonplace to see a metaphysical, epistemological and/or ethical position self-described and described by others as one that is naturalized. But what, if anything, does the term naturalized add--or subtract---to the position being articulated? I demonstrate inThe Problem of Naturalism: Analytic and Continental Perspectives, that the term naturalism connotes such a broad meaning that it is difficult to demarcate naturalism from philosophy itself.
Still, many philosophers have tried to provide non-trivial and non-vacuous definitions of the term. My book, by and large, argues that such attempts are unsuccessful. Instead, I argue that naturalism is an attitude and neither a methodology nor a substantive position. I then articulate the guidelines the naturalist needs to follow, as well as the virtues he or she needs to practice, in order for the term naturalism to do any meaningful work.
Much of the book explains and then critiques the various attempts to define naturalism in the Anglo-American secondary literature. Some of the criticisms I raise seem to emanate from the internal logic of the naturalistic position being expressed. However, others have emerged from gleaning the work of such Continental thinkers as: Nietzsche, Husserl, Heidegger and Foucault. I use these thinkers in order to expose the unjustified implicit and sometimes explicit assumptions that many naturalistic philosophers presume to hold when they attempt to render a clear, distinct and robust naturalist position.
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Philosophers often use the term naturalism in order to describe their work. It is commonplace to see a metaphysical, epistemological and/or ethical position self-described and described by others as one that is naturalized. But what, if anything, does the term naturalized add--or subtract---to the position being articulated? I demonstrate inThe Problem of Naturalism: Analytic and Continental Perspectives, that the term naturalism connotes such a broad meaning that it is difficult to demarcate naturalism from philosophy itself.
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- The Problem of Naturalism: Analytic and Continental Perspectives, investigates how the term naturalism is defined and applied in the philosophic secondary literature from two often competing perspectives: analytic and Continental. The book offers its own justification and explication for naturalism by arguing that naturalism is best thought of as an attitude and not as a methodological or substantive position.
- Autorenportrait
- Brian Lightbody is associate professor of philosophy at Brock University in Ontario, Canada. He is the author ofPhilosophical Genealogy and co-editor ofThe Logic ofIncarnation. He has authored numerous articles and book chapters on such thinkers as: Nietzsche, Foucault, Haack and Marcuse.