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Description: 1 [edition]. | hoboken : John wiley & sons, inc., 2016. | includes index. identifiers: lCCN 2015041263 | isBN 9781118657607 (hardback) subjects: lCsh: Naturalism. | BisaC: philosophY / metaphysics. Classification: lCC B828.2.C58 2016 | DDC 146–dc23 lC record available at http://lccn.loc.gov/2015041263 a catalogue record for this book is available from the British library. set in 10/12.5 minion by spi Global, pondicherry, india 1 2016 To Michael Murray, friend and philosopher Contents 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 viii CONTENTS 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 List of Contributors Ásta Sveinsdóttir Douglas Edwards San Francisco State University Hamilton College San Francisco, CA, USA Clinton, NY, USA Berit Brogaard Filippo Ferrari University of Miami, Miami, FL, USA University of Aberdeen University of Oslo Aberdeen, UK Oslo, Norway William J. FitzPatrick Amita Chatterjee University of Rochester School of Cognitive Science Rochester, NY, USA Jadavpur University Kolkata, India Owen Flanagan Duke University Kelly James Clark Durham, NC, USA Kaufman Institute Grand Valley State University Hans Halvorson Allendale, MI, USA Princeton University Princeton, NJ, USA Thomas M. Crisp Biola University Valerie Gray Hardcastle Brea, CA, USA University of Cincinnati California, KY, USA Terence D. Cuneo University of Vermont Hud Hudson Burlington, VT, USA Western Washington University Bellingham, WA, USA Helen De Cruz Faculty of Humanities Jonathan D. Jacobs VU University Amsterdam St. Louis University Amsterdam, The Netherlands Saint Louis, MO, USA x LIST OF CONTRIBUTORS C.S.I. Jenkins Barbara Gail Montero University of British Columbia CUNY Vancouver, BC, Canada New York, NY, USA Richard Joyce Matteo Morganti Victorian University of Wellington Department of Philosophy Wellington, New Zealand Communication and Performing Arts University of Rome ‘Roma TRE’ Brian L. Keeley Rome, Italy Pitzer College Claremont, CA, USA Ryan Nichols Department of Philosophy Drew Khlentzos California State University, Fullerton Australian Research Centre of Excellence Fullerton, CA, USA in Cognition and its Disorders and Department of Linguistics Dorothea Olkowski Macquarie University University of Colorado, Colorado Spring Australia Colorado Springs, CO, USA Philip Kitcher David Papineau Columbia University CUNY, New York, NY, USA New York, NY, USA Kings College, London London, UK Joseph Levine UMass Amherst Keith Ansell Pearson Leverett, MA, USA University of Warwick Coventry, UK Neil Levy Oxford University John Protevi St. Kilda East, Australia Louisiana State University Baton Rouge, LA, USA Michael P. Lynch University of Connecticut Mansfield Center, CT, USA Jeffrey W. Roland Louisiana State University Robert N. McCauley Baton Rouge, LA, USA Emory University Atlanta, GA, USA Gideon Rosen Princeton University Douglas McDermid Princeton, NJ, USA Trent University Peterborough, ON, Canada Hagop Sarkissian Department of Philosophy, Christian B. Miller Baruch College Wake Forest University CUNY Winston‐Salem, NC, USA New York, NY, USA LIST OF CONTRIBUTORS xi P. Kyle Stanford Kevin Timpe University of California, Department of Northwest Nazarene College Logic and Philosophy of Science Nampa, ID, USA Irvine, CA, USA Nicholas Wolterstorff Jussi Suikkanen Yale University University of Birmingham Grand Rapids, MI, USA Edgbaston Birmingham, UK David Wong Duke University Valerie Tiberius Durham, NC, USA University of Minnesota Minneapolis, MN, USA