Why methodological naturalism?

In Kelly James Clark (ed.), Blackwell Companion to Naturalism. Hoboken: Blackwell (2016)
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I discuss motivations for methodological naturalism in science. I argue that methodological naturalism neither needs nor supports metaphysical naturalism.

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