The Naturalness of Belief
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The Naturalness of Belief

New Essays on Theism’s Rationality
Paul Copan
Lexington Books
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ISBN-13:
9781498579919
Veröffentl:
2018
Seiten:
300
Autor:
Paul Copan
eBook Typ:
EPUB
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Adobe DRM [Hard-DRM]
Sprache:
Englisch
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This volume exposes naturalism’s unnaturalness and defends theism’s naturalness and greater explanatory power to account for wide-ranging phenomena in the world and human experience. A broadening of naturalism to accommodate these features means borrowing heavily from—and thus more closely resembling—a theistic worldview.
Despite its name, “naturalism” as a world-view turns out to be rather unnatural in its strict and more consistent form of materialism and determinism. This is why a number of naturalists opt for a broadened version that includes objective moral values, intrinsic human dignity, consciousness, beauty, personal agency, and the like. But in doing so, broad naturalism begins to look more like theism. As many strict naturalists recognize, broad naturalism must borrow from the metaphysical resources of a theistic world-view, in which such features are very natural, common sensical, and quite “at home” in a theistic framework.



The Naturalness of Belief begins with a naturalistic philosopher’s own perspective of naturalism and naturalness. The remaining chapters take a multifaceted approach in showing theism’s naturalness and greater explanatory power. They examine not only rational reasons for theism’s ability to account for consciousness, intentionality, beauty, human dignity, free will, rationality, and knowledge; they also look at common sensical, existential, psychological, and cultural reasons—in addition to the insights of the cognitive science of religion.

Contents



Introduction



Part I

The Unnaturalness of Naturalism?



1. Naturalism and Naturalness: A Naturalist’s Perspective

Graham Oppy



Part II

Foundational Considerations



2. Is Naturalism Natural?

Charles Taliaferro



3. The Contraction and Expansion of Naturalism and the Theistic Challenge

Charles Taliaferro



4. Taking Philosophical Naturalism Seriously

R. Scott Smith



Part III

Theistic Belief, Science, and Naturalism



5. In What Sense Might Religion Be Natural?

Justin Barrett and Aku Visala



6. Science, Methodological Naturalism, and Question-Begging

Robert Larmer



Part IV

Axiology and Naturalism



7. Alienating Humanity: How Evolutionary Ethics Undermines Human Rights

Angus Menuge



8. Divine Commands, Duties, and Euthyphro: Theism and Naturalist Misunderstandings

Matthew Flannagan



9. Beauty: A Troubling Reality for the Scientific Naturalist

R. Douglas Geivett and James Spiegel



Part V

Naturalism and Existential Considerations



10. Existential Arguments for Theistic Belief

Clifford Williams



11. Psychological Factors Contributing to Atheism: Bad Father Relationships and Just Bad Relationships as in Autistic Spectrum Disorders

Paul C. Vitz



12. The Cultural Implications of Theism versus Naturalism

Paul Copan and Jeremiah J. Johnston



Part VI

Naturalism, Freedom, and Immortality



13. Theism, Robust Naturalism, and Robust Libertarian Free Will

J.P. Moreland



14. Naturalism, Theism, and Afterlife Beliefs

Jonathan Loose

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