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  1. Disenchanted Naturalism.Disenchanted Naturalism - unknown
    Naturalism is the label for the thesis that the tools we should use in answering philosophical problems are the methods and findings of the mature sciences—from physics across to biology and increasingly neuroscience. It enables us to rule out answers to philosophical questions that are incompatible with scientific findings. It enables us to rule out epistemological pluralism—that the house of knowledge has many mansions, as well as skepticism about the reach of science. It bids us doubt that (...)
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  2. Philosophical Naturalism. Philosophical Naturalism.David Papineau - 1993 - Cambridge, Mass., USA: Blackwell.
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    Contemporary Philosophical Naturalism and its Implications.Bana Bashour & Hans D. Muller (eds.) - 2013 - New York: Routledge.
    One of the most pervasive and persistent questions in philosophy is the relationship between the natural sciences and traditional philosophical categories such as metaphysics, epistemology and the mind. _Contemporary Philosophical Naturalism and Its Implications _is a unique and valuable contribution to the literature on this issue. It brings together a remarkable collection of highly regarded experts in the field along with some young theorists providing a fresh perspective. This book is noteworthy for bringing together committed philosophical (...)
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    Philosophers, Naturalists, and Antipodean Encounters, 1748-1803.Bronwen Douglas - 2013 - Intellectual History Review 23 (3):387-409.
    This article addresses a complex nexus of discourse and praxis: varying Enlightenment visions of Man; emergent ideas about human differences; and encounters between European scientific voyagers and Indigenous people in New Holland (Australia) and Van Diemen's Land (Tasmania) at the start of the nineteenth century. Discursively, I trace two strands of ?anthropological? thinking. One, philosophical and economic, is epitomized in French and Scottish stadial theory. The other is naturalist and culminated in Buffon's natural history of man. Both were appropriated (...)
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    Philosophical Naturalism and Methodological Naturalism.Stephen C. Dilley - 2010 - Philosophia Christi 12 (1):118-141.
    This essay argues that philosophical naturalists who draw epistemic support from science for their worldview ought to set aside methodological naturalism in certain historical sciences. When linked to methodological naturalism, philosophical naturalism opens itself to several problems. Specifically, when joined with methodological naturalism, philosophical naturalism can 'never' be scientifically disconfirmed but will nearly 'always' be confirmed, no matter what the empirical evidence. Theistic-friendly "God hypotheses," on the other hand, can 'never' be scientifically (...)
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  6. Conceptual Analysis and Philosophical Naturalism.David Braddon-Mitchell & Robert Nola (eds.) - 2008 - Bradford.
    Many philosophical naturalists eschew analysis in favor of discovering metaphysical truths from the a posteriori, contending that analysis does not lead to philosophical insight. A countercurrent to this approach seeks to reconcile a certain account of conceptual analysis with philosophical naturalism; prominent and influential proponents of this methodology include the late David Lewis, Frank Jackson, Michael Smith, Philip Pettit, and David Armstrong. Naturalistic analysis is a tool for locating in the scientifically given world objects and properties (...)
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  7. American Philosophic Naturalism in the Twentieth Century.John Ryder - 1997 - American Journal of Theology and Philosophy 18 (2):186-190.
     
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  8. Philosophical Naturalism at the Turn of the Century.Robert Audi - 2000 - Journal of Philosophical Research 25:27-45.
    This paper examines the nature and varieties of philosophical naturalism. A central question it pursues is whether there is any unifying conception of naturalism and, if so, whether it is substantive or methodological. Another question addressed is the extent to which naturalism is motivated by or depends on empiricism. The paper explores the connection between naturalism and scientific method---often taken as central in defining it---and critically discusses naturalistic positions in metaphysics (including philosophical theology), epistemology, (...)
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    American philosophic naturalism in the twentieth century.John Joseph Ryder (ed.) - 1994 - Amherst, N.Y.: Prometheus Books.
    This comprehensive collection, bringing together significant essays by leading philosophers of the twentieth century, represents one prominent school of American thought philosophic naturalism. Naturalism holds that nature is objective and can be studied to gain knowledge that is not determined by methodology, perspective, belief, or theory. For the naturalist, "nature" is an all-encompassing concept; nothing is other than natural and any notion of a supernatural realm is rejected. Naturalism, however, cannot be equated with materialistic reductionism or strict (...)
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  10. (1 other version)Philosophical naturalism and intuitional methodology.Alvin I. Goldman - forthcoming - Proceedings and Addresses of the American Philosophical Association.
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    Scientific realism and philosophical naturalism in Šmajs’ evolutionary ontology.Inéz Melichová & Robert Burgan - 2013 - Human Affairs 23 (4):556-575.
    J. Šmajs’ concept of evolutionary ontology has attracted much attention in recent years especially in Czech and Slovak academic circles, yet it remains, as some of its proponents claim, undervalued in Britain and the US. Even in the Czech Republic and Slovakia, there are, in addition to its strong supporters, several authors who almost a priori reject the concept, pointing to several questionable, contradictory or even mutually exclusive or self-refuting arguments. In this paper, mainly based on a comprehensive analysis of (...)
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  12. Philosophical Naturalism and Scientific Method.Brian Haig - 2018 - In Brian D. Haig (ed.), Method Matters in Psychology: Essays in Applied Philosophy of Science. Cham: Springer Verlag.
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  13. Marjorie Grene's philosophical naturalism.Helen E. Longino - 2002 - In R.E. Auxier & L.E. Hahn (eds.), The Philosophy of Marjorie Grene. La Salle, Illinois: Open Court. pp. 29--83.
    Marjorie Grene was a philosophical naturalist avant la lettre. This essay surveys some problems with contemporary (late 20th century) naturalism, argues that Grene’s criticisms of ancient epistemologies are applicable to their contemporary versions, and finds an alternative, philosophically richer, naturalism in Grene’s appropriation of J.J. Gibson’s ideas on perception and in her insistence on treating humans as no less a part of nature than plants and other animals.
     
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  14. Philosophical Naturalism and the Language Sciences.Lia Formigari - 2008 - In Willems Klaas & De Cuypere Ludovic (eds.), Naturalness and Iconicity in Language. John Benjamins Publishing. pp. 25-46.
     
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  15. Philosophical Naturalism and Empirical Approaches to Philosophy.Jonathan Y. Tsou - forthcoming - In Marcus Rossberg (ed.), The Cambridge Handbook of Analytic Philosophy. Cambridge University Press.
    This chapter examines the influence of the empirical sciences (e.g., physics, biology, psychology) in contemporary analytic philosophy, with focus on philosophical theories that are guided by findings from the empirical sciences. Scientific approaches to philosophy follow a tradition of philosophical naturalism associated with Quine, which strives to ally philosophical methods and theories more closely with the empirical sciences and away from a priori theorizing and conceptual analysis.
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    American Philosophic Naturalism in the Twentieth Century. Edited by John Ryder.John Teehan - 1996 - Metaphilosophy 27 (4):426-432.
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    A Resurgence of American Philosophical Naturalism.Leon Niemoczynski - 2016 - American Journal of Theology and Philosophy 37 (1):53-54.
    I am honored, grateful, and of course very pleased to be the guest editor of the articles whose topic is ecstatic naturalism published here in this issue of The American Journal of Theology & Philosophy. Robert Corrington’s ecstatic naturalism has for the better part of several decades been an evolving perspective and indeed carries forward a tradition of philosophical naturalism dating back to they heyday of American naturalisms found within the mid to late twentieth century. To (...)
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  18. Contemporary Philosophical Naturalism.Bana Bashour (ed.) - 2014
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  19. Senior seminar — philosophical naturalism.Joseph Cruz - manuscript
    Philosophical naturalism is the thesis that the entirety of the universe is composed of natural things or processes, and philosophers including Aristotle, Hume, Hegel, Nietzsche, Foucault, Mackie, and Fodor subscribe, in some sense, to it. This elusive commitment has been variously interpreted to mean that everything in the universe is physical or material, or that everything is amenable to scientific investigation, or that nothing is supernatural, or that nothing is known a priori, or that everything is natural in (...)
     
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    Philosophical Naturalism.Peter A. French, Theodore Edward Uehling & Howard K. Wettstein - 1994 - University of Notre Dame Press.
    The 21 essays collected in this volume of Midwest Studies in Philosophy question and debate the primary assumptions of science. These are its conception of an orderly universe; its ability to define; and its ability to explain. The contributors approach these topics from varying perspectives, including the historic development of our understanding of the scientific enterprise; the controversy of opposing paradigms; and the challenges raised by quantum mechanics.
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  21. Philosophical naturalism and the cognitive approach to ritual'.Robert N. McCauley - 2002 - In Kevin Schilbrack (ed.), Thinking through rituals: philosophical perspectives. New York: Routledge. pp. 148--171.
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    Neurotheology and philosophical naturalism: materialistic reductionism of the religious phenomenon?Fabián Rodríguez Medina & María de Los Andes Valenzuela Corales - 2021 - Veritas – Revista de Filosofia da Pucrs 50:127-145.
    Resumen En este trabajo se realiza un análisis exploratorio sobre lo que se ha venido concibiendo como un nuevo campo del saber científico desde hace algunas décadas, nos referimos a la neuroteología. También se pretende entender hasta qué punto la filosofía naturalista contemporánea puede estar vinculada con la neuroteología -sobre todo cuando el naturalismo implica, en la mayoría de los casos, un reduccionismo que conduce al materialismo-, teniendo en conside ración que en las distintas áreas neurocientíficas tiene lugar un fisicalismo, (...)
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    Hilary Putnam's philosophical naturalism: making philosophy matter for life.Massimo Dell'Utri - 2024 - Lanham: The Rowman & Littlefield Publishing Group.
    Hilary Putnam's Philosophical Naturalism: Making Philosophy Matter for Life offers a faithful illustration of the trajectory of Putnam's thought to show how, despite the shifts in opinion on issues of central philosophical importance, his thought reveals a systematic backbone and strong continuities.
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    Studies in philosophical naturalism.Harvey Gates Townsend - 1931 - Eugene [Or.]: The University.
  25. Lorenz's philosophical naturalism in the mirror of contemporary science studies.Werner Callebaut - 2003 - Ludus Vitalis 9 (20):26-55.
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    Methodological vs. philosophical naturalism.Pigliucci Massimo - 2002 - Free Inquiry 23 (1):53.
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    American Philosophic Naturalism in the Twentieth Century.Randall E. Auxier - 1996 - Journal of the History of Philosophy 34 (2):313-315.
    BOOK REVIEWS 3~3 reaction to them into account. The actual historical dialectic involving Moore, Mal- colm, and Wittgenstein is a good deal more complicated, and more interesting, than the story told here by Stroll. Moving on to Stroll's discussion of Wittgenstein, I should now acknowledge that, so far as I can judge, Stroll offers a largely reliable account of On Certainty. In particular, in the best chapter of the book, on "Wittgenstein's Foundationalism," he makes a convincing case for the view (...)
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    Modern Science, Philosophical Naturalism, and a De-Trivializing of Human Nature.Koichiro Misawa - 2017 - Philosophy of Education 73:565-578.
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    How Scientific Practices Matter: Reclaiming Philosophical Naturalism.Joseph Rouse - 2002 - University of Chicago Press.
    How can we understand the world as a whole instead of separate natural and human realms? Joseph T. Rouse proposes an approach to this classic problem based on radical new conceptions of both philosophical naturalism and scientific practice.
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  30. The Significance of American Philosophical Naturalism.Patrick Romanell - 1995 - Free Inquiry 16.
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    The Collapse of American Philosophical Naturalism.Dale Riepe - 1969 - Telos: Critical Theory of the Contemporary 1969 (3):82-89.
  32. Quine's philosophical naturalism.Jerzy Giedymin - 1972 - British Journal for the Philosophy of Science 23 (1):45-55.
    Quine's reasons for recommending naturalist epistemology are: (1) knowledge, Mind and meaning are part of the world they have to do with, (2) since the cartesian quest for certainty and reductionism of carnap's 'aufbau' type have failed, Rational reconstruction has no more any advantage over psychology, (3) since phenomenalist validation of science is no longer our concern, It is not circular to appeal to psychology. Against this it is argued that (a) no definite methodological policy can be based on (1) (...)
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  33. Introduction to Philosophical Naturalism.David Papineau - 1993 - Blackwell.
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  34. Early Indian Philosophical Naturalism.Dale Maurice Riepe - 1953 - Dissertation, University of Michigan
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    Are We Sending Mixed Messages? How Philosophical Naturalism Erodes Ethical Instruction: Section: Philsophical Foundations.Marjorie J. Cooper - 2007 - Journal of Business Ethics 75 (2):171-180.
    To develop critical thinking skills, higher order ethical reasoning, a better grasp of the implications of ethical decisions, and a basis for ethical knowledge, it is necessary to explore the philosophical premises foundational to one’s ethical persuasion. No philosophical premises are more important than those pertaining to the nature of human personhood and business’ responsibility to respect the inherent value of human beings. Philosophical naturalism assigns the essence of human personhood strictly to causal interactions of physical (...)
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    Contemporary Philosophical Naturalism and Its Implications.Stewart Goetz - 2014 - Philosophia Christi 16 (1):219-222.
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    Conceptual Analysis and Philosophical Naturalism.Nic Damnjanovic - 2011 - Australasian Journal of Philosophy 89 (4):735 - 738.
    Australasian Journal of Philosophy, Volume 89, Issue 4, Page 735-738, December 2011.
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    American Philosophic Naturalism[REVIEW]John Stuhr - 1995 - Newsletter of the Society for the Advancement of American Philosophy 23 (71):41-43.
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    About face: philosophical naturalism, the heuristic identity theory, and recent findings aboutprosopagnosia.RobertN McCauley - 2012 - In Simone Gozzano & Christopher S. Hill (eds.), New Perspectives on Type Identity: The Mental and the Physical. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press. pp. 186.
  40. The American Origins of Philosophical Naturalism.Jaegwon Kim - 2003 - Journal of Philosophical Research 28 (9999):83-98.
    If contemporary analytic philosophy can be said to have a philosophical ideology, it undoubtedly is naturalism. Naturalism is often invoked as a motivating ground for many philosophical projects, and “naturalization” programs abound everywhere, in theory of knowledge, philosophy of mind, theory of meaning, metaphysics, and ethics. But what is naturalism, and where does it come from? This paper examines the naturalism debate in midtwentieth-century America as a proximate source of contemporary naturalism. Views of (...)
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    David Papineau, Philosophical Naturalism, Oxford, Blackwell, 1993, pp. xii + 219.N. J. H. Dent - 1995 - Utilitas 7 (2):332.
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    Studies in Philosophical Naturalism[REVIEW]Donald A. Piatt - 1933 - Journal of Philosophy 30 (14):386-388.
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    The Philosophical Naturalists: Themes in Early Nineteenth-Century British Biology by Philip R. Rehbock. [REVIEW]Mary Winsor - 1985 - Isis 76:252-253.
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    The philosophical naturalists: Themes in early nineteenth-century british biology. [REVIEW]Michael Ruse - 1986 - Journal of the History of Philosophy 24 (3):423-425.
  45. A Comparison of Judeo-Christian Theism and Philosophical Naturalism as Explanatory World-Views.Jason A. Beyer - 2007 - Lewiston, NY 14092, USA: Edwin Mellen Press.
    In this work, I argue for the overall explanatory superiority of philosophical naturalism to a theistic worldview. Pursuant to that, this piece develops and defends a functionalist theory of explanation, which is then used in addressing several particular topics in the philosophy of religion: the law-governed nature of the world, the intelligibility of the world, alleged "fine-tuning", reports of religious experiences and the occurrence of evils. In each case, I argue that a naturalistic explanation is as good or (...)
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    Philip F. Rehbock, The Philosophical Naturalists: Themes in Early Nineteenth-Century British Biology. . Madison, Wisconsin: University of Wisconsin Press, 1983. Pp xv + 281. ISBN 0-299-09430-8. $30. [REVIEW]Janet Browne - 1985 - British Journal for the History of Science 18 (2):251-251.
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    1 The making of a philosophical naturalist.Phillip R. Sloan - 2003 - In Jonathan Hodge & Gregory Radick (eds.), The Cambridge Companion to Darwin. Cambridge University Press. pp. 17.
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    Between the Placement Problem and the Reconciliation Problem. Philosophical Naturalism Today.Mario De Caro - 2023 - Topoi 42 (3):675-682.
    Scientific naturalism—the conception according to which the natural sciences, and possibly physics alone, set the limits of ontology and epistemology—is characterized by a strong monistic tendency. For this reason, all versions of scientific naturalism face the so-called “placement problem”, which concerns the features of the ordinary view of the world that, at least prima facie, do not fit into the scientific view of the world (think of consciousness, moral properties, free will, and intentionality). To address this problem, scientific (...)
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  49. Between Naturalism and Religion: Philosophical Essays.Jürgen Habermas - 2008 - Malden, MA: Polity.
    Two countervailing trends mark the intellectual tenor of our age the spread of naturalistic worldviews and religious orthodoxies. Advances in biogenetics, brain research, and robotics are clearing the way for the penetration of an objective scientific self-understanding of persons into everyday life. For philosophy, this trend is associated with the challenge of scientific naturalism. At the same time, we are witnessing an unexpected revitalization of religious traditions and the politicization of religious communities across the world. From a philosophical (...)
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    Book Reviews : David Papineau, Philosophical Naturalism. Blackwell, Oxford, 1993. Pp. xii + 219. $44.95 (cloth), $19.95 (paper). Taking the Naturalistic Turn: Or How Real Philosophy of Science Is Done, organized and moderated by Werner Callebaut. Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 1993. Pp. xxii + 553. $85.00 (cloth), $29.95 (paper. [REVIEW]Harold I. Brown - 1996 - Philosophy of the Social Sciences 26 (3):421-426.
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