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The Problem of Naturalism - Analytic Perspectives, Continental Virtues (Hardcover)
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The Problem of Naturalism - Analytic Perspectives, Continental Virtues (Hardcover)
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Philosophers often use the term "naturalism' in order to describe
their work. It is commonplace to see a metaphysical,
epistemological and/or ethical position self-described and
described by others as one that is "naturalized." But what, if
anything, does the term naturalized add--or subtract---to the
position being articulated? I demonstrate in The Problem of
Naturalism: Analytic and Continental Perspectives, that the term
naturalism connotes such a broad meaning that it is difficult to
demarcate naturalism from philosophy itself. Still, many
philosophers have tried to provide non-trivial and non-vacuous
definitions of the term. My book, by and large, argues that such
attempts are unsuccessful. Instead, I argue that naturalism is an
attitude and neither a methodology nor a substantive position. I
then articulate the guidelines the naturalist needs to follow, as
well as the virtues he or she needs to practice, in order for the
term naturalism to do any meaningful work. Much of the book
explains and then critiques the various attempts to define
naturalism in the Anglo-American secondary literature. Some of the
criticisms I raise seem to emanate from the internal logic of the
naturalistic position being expressed. However, others have emerged
from gleaning the work of such Continental thinkers as: Nietzsche,
Husserl, Heidegger and Foucault. I use these thinkers in order to
expose the unjustified implicit and sometimes explicit assumptions
that many naturalistic philosophers presume to hold when they
attempt to render a clear, distinct and robust naturalist position.
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