After the nineteenth-century “turn from idealism,” when idealist
philosophies were largely abandoned for materialist ones, many
analytic philosophers have adhered to scientific naturalism as the new
orthodoxy, largely due to the success of scientific advancements. The
New Atheists, such as Daniel Dennett and Richard Dawkins, claim it is
Darwin who deserves much of the credit for repudiating the traditional
Mind-first world view. In The Implications of Evolution for
Metaphysics: Theism, Idealism, and Naturalism, David H. Gordon
explores questions such as: Is it true that evolution is incompatible
with theism and necessarily results in naturalism? Is it possible, as
naturalism maintains, that everything can be reduced to physical
processes? Or are there too many recalcitrant phenomena that defy
reduction? Can the epistemological conditions for metaphysical
knowledge be met? If the underdetermination of theory allows for
multiple metaphysical theories to cover the same phenomena, with each
offering an epistemically adequate explanation, then neither
naturalism nor theism can be asserted to be objectively true.
Nevertheless, it is possible to favor one over the other based on
overall coherence and explanatory power.
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Theism, Idealism, and Naturalism
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ISBN
9781666923735
Publisert
2023
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Bloomsbury USA
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Engelsk
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Digital bok
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