Naturalism and our knowledge of reality
Subtitle: testing religious truth-claims
By: R. Scott Smith
Series: New critical thinking in religion, theology and Biblical studies
Publisher: Ashgate
Published: 2011
Place of publication: Farnham, Surrey, England; Burlington, VT
Language: eng
Number of pages: 241
ISBN-13: 9781409434863
Subjects: Theory of Knowledge; Christian Philosophy; Theism; Naturalism; Knowledge, Theory of (Religion)
Other titles: Testing religious truth-claims
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: Introduction; title: Direct realism. An introduction to direct realism : the views of D.M. Armstrong; title: The representationalism of Dretske, Tye, and Lycan; title: Searle's naturalism and the prospects for knowledge; title: Philosophy as science : neuroscience, neurophilosophy, and naturalized epistemology. Cognitive science, philosophy, and our knowledge of reality, pt. 1. The views of David Papineau; title: Cognitive science, philosophy, and our knowledge of reality, pt. 2. The views of Daniel Dennett; title: Can the Churchlands' neurocomputational theory cognition ground a viable epistemology? (by Errin Clark); title: Other alternatives, and naturalism's future. Other proposals : Pollock's internalism, Kim's functionalism (with Peggy Burke), and more externalist considerations; title: The future directions of naturalism; title: A positive case for our knowledge of reality; title: Methodological naturalism and the scientific method, and other implications.