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Edited by Alan Nelson Edited by Kelly James Clark
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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
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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
