‧the bearing of liberal naturalism on contemporary debates in epistemology, philosophy of mind, ethics and aesthetics.Įssential reading for students and researchers in all areas of philosophy, this volume will be of particular interest for those studying philosophical naturalism, philosophy of science, metaphysics, epistemology, philosophy of mind, ethics and aesthetics. ‧related kinds of naturalism, including subject naturalism, common-sense naturalism and biological naturalism Strawson, John McDowell, Hilary Putnam, and John Rawls ‧contemporary liberal naturalists such as P.F. ‧naturalism in the history of philosophy, including Hume, Dewey, and Quine Comprising 37 chapters by an international team of contributors, it examines important cutting-edge topics including: The Routledge Handbook of Liberal Naturalism is the first collection to present a comprehensive overview of liberal naturalism, a philosophical outlook that lies between scientific naturalism and supernaturalism. Moreover, many philosophical problems are beyond the scope of the sciences, such as the nature of persons, the normativity of the space of reasons, and how best to understand the peculiar mix of objectivity and subjectivity of ethics and art. Liberal naturalists argue that such scientific naturalism demands reductive and Procrustean conceptions of knowledge and reality. Today many argue that philosophy should fold itself into the sciences, especially the natural sciences.
The central question of naturalism - the relation of philosophy to science - was one of the defining strands of twentieth-century thought and remains a major source of debate and controversy.
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