Charles Darwin, the Copley Medal, and the Rise of Naturalism, 1862-1864, B. Kamran Swanson, Dann Siems, Elizabeth E. Dunn, Marsha Driscoll
Автор: Alan Charles Kors Название: Naturalism and Unbelief in France, 1650–1729 ISBN: 1107514347 ISBN-13(EAN): 9781107514348 Издательство: Cambridge Academ Рейтинг: Цена: 5069.00 р. Наличие на складе: Есть у поставщика Поставка под заказ.
Описание: Although atheism is a rising subject of interest today, the history of the possibility and emergence of atheism is less studied. This book will be of great interest to academics and non-academics with interests in free thought, theology, French culture, early modern Europe and the dissemination of ideas.
Описание: Is it possible to reconcile personal spiritual experience long attributed to belief in and reliance on a higher power, with realization that the laws of nature, especially modern physics, do not accommodate the existence of a god unbound by those laws? The author discusses the Christianity of his youth, a long period of agnosticism, and his spiritual awakening in connection with recovery from alcoholism. A comfortable spiritual home for nearly 40 years then fell to the inescapable realization that a supernatural god cannot exist in our universe. The author reviews the history and substance of the philosophical and scientific building blocks that lead to his understanding and embrace of naturalism. He describes Spiritual Existentialism, a philosophy based on human action defining human essence. Human experience includes phenomena we call spiritual experience that, although real, occur only in and among human beings whose amazing brains and emergent consciousness have enormous capacity for communication and empathy. Life can be every bit, even more, meaningful, fulfilling and wonderful without, as it would be with, the existence of a supernatural god.
Today the ethical and normative concerns of everyday citizens are all too often sidelined from the study of political and social issues, driven out by an effort to create a more “scientific” study. This book offers a way for social scientists and political theorists to reintegrate the empirical and the normative, proposing a way out of the scientism that clouds our age. In Alasdair MacIntyre, Charles Taylor, and the Demise of Naturalism, Jason Blakely argues that the resources for overcoming this divide are found in the respective intellectual developments of Charles Taylor and Alasdair MacIntyre. Blakely examines their often parallel intellectual journeys, which led them to critically engage the British New Left, analytic philosophy, phenomenology, continental hermeneutics, and modern social science. Although MacIntyre and Taylor are not sui generis, Blakely claims they each present a new, revived humanism, one that insists on the creative agency of the human person against reductive, instrumental, technocratic, and scientistic ways of thinking. The recovery of certain key themes in these philosophers’ works generates a new political philosophy with which to face certain unprecedented problems of our age. Taylor’s and MacIntyre’s philosophies give social scientists working in all disciplines (from economics and sociology to political science and psychology) an alternative theoretical framework for conducting research.
Автор: Charles Taliaferro, Jil Evans Название: The Image in Mind: Theism, Naturalism, and the Imagination ISBN: 144116779X ISBN-13(EAN): 9781441167798 Издательство: Bloomsbury Academic Рейтинг: Цена: 6358.00 р. Наличие на складе: Есть у поставщика Поставка под заказ.
Описание: A philosophical inquiry into the strengths and weaknesses of theism and naturalism in accounting for the emergence of consciousness, the visual imagination and aesthetic values. The authors begin by offering an account of modern scientific practice which gives a central place to the visual imagination and aesthetic values. They then move to test the explanatory power of naturalism and theism in accounting for consciousness and the very visual imagination and aesthetic values that lie behind and define modern science. Taliaferro and Evans argue that evolutionary biology alone is insufficient to account for consciousness, the visual imagination and aesthetic values. Insofar as naturalism is compelled to go beyond evolutionary biology, it does not fare as well as theism in terms of explanatory power.
Автор: Goetz, Stewart Taliaferro, Charles Название: Naturalism ISBN: 0802807682 ISBN-13(EAN): 9780802807687 Издательство: Неизвестно Рейтинг: Цена: 3309.00 р. Наличие на складе: Есть у поставщика Поставка под заказ.
Описание: This inaugural Interventions volume introduces readers to the dominant scientifically oriented worldview called naturalism. Stewart Goetz and Charles Taliaferro examine naturalism philosophically, evaluating its strengths and weaknesses. Whereas most other books on naturalism are written for professional philosophers alone, this one is aimed primarily at a college-educated audience interested in learning about this pervasive worldview. Read a related blog post by the authors on EerdWord.
Описание: Examines the secular creeds of the generation of intellectuals who, in the wake of The Origin of Species, wrested cultural authority from the old Anglican establishment while installing themselves as a new professional scientific elite.
Автор: Visala Название: Naturalism, Theism and the Cognitive Study of Religion ISBN: 1138268585 ISBN-13(EAN): 9781138268586 Издательство: Taylor&Francis Рейтинг: Цена: 8573.00 р. Наличие на складе: Есть у поставщика Поставка под заказ.
Описание: This book provides a critical philosophical analysis of the claim that contemporary cognitive approaches to religion undermine theistic beliefs. Recent scientific work into the evolution and cognition of religion has been driven by and interpreted in terms of a certain kind of philosophical and methodological naturalism. The book argues that such naturalism is not necessary for the cognitive study of religion and develops an alternative philosophical and methodological framework. This alternative framework opens the cognitive study of religion to theological and philosophical considerations and clarifies its relationship to other approaches to religious phenomena. This unique contribution to discussions regarding the philosophical and theological implications of the cognitive study of religion summarizes the so far fragmentary discussion, exposes its underlying assumptions, and develops a novel framework for further discussion.
Автор: de Caro Mario, MacArthur David Название: The Routledge Handbook of Liberal Naturalism ISBN: 0815381824 ISBN-13(EAN): 9780815381822 Издательство: Taylor&Francis Рейтинг: Цена: 37514.00 р. Наличие на складе: Есть у поставщика Поставка под заказ.
Описание: This is the first collection to present a comprehensive overview of liberal naturalism. Essential reading for students and researchers in all areas of philosophy it will be of particular interest for those studying philosophical naturalism, philosophy of science, metaphysics, philosophy of mind and ethics.
This book offers the reader a guide to the major philosophical approaches to science since World War Two. Considering the bases, arguments and conclusions of the four main movements - Logical Reconstructionism, Descriptivism, Normative Naturalism and Foundationalism - John Losee explores how philosophy has both shaped and expanded our understanding of science.
The volume features major figures of twentieth century science, and engages with the work of previous philosophers of science, including Norman Campbell, Rudolf Carnap, Ernest Nagel, Karl Popper, Richard Dawkins, and John Worrall. In particular, The Golden Age of Philosophy of Science, 1945 to 2000 aims to answer the following questions: How should competing philosophies of science be evaluated? Should philosophy of science be a prescriptive discipline? Can philosophy of science achieve normative status without designating trans-historical evaluative principles? And finally, how can understanding the history of science aid us in analyzing the philosophy of science? In answering these questions, this book shows us why we understand science the way we do.
The Golden Age of Philosophy of Science 1945 to 2000 is essential reading for students and researchers working in the history and philosophy of science.
Описание: In this volume, Simon Joyce examines the ways in which readers have come to view canonical modernists such as James Joyce and Virginia Woolf, showing how their work might be read in conjunction with lesser-known Irish and `New Woman` novelists such as George Moore, Sarah Grand, and George Egerton.
Описание: Examines the ways in which American women writers wrote naturalistic fiction and redefined its principles. Donna Campbell looks at examples from Edith Wharton, Kate Chopin, and others and positions their work within the naturalistic canon that arose near the turn of the twentieth century.
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