The Naturalness of Belief - New Essays on Theism's Rationality (Hardcover)

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.

General

Imprint:	Lexington Books
Country of origin:	United States
Release date:	November 2018
Editors:	Paul Copan • Charles Taliaferro
Contributors:	Clifford Williams • Paul C Vitz • Aku Visala • Charles Taliaferro • James S Spiegel • Ronald Scott Smith • Graham Oppy • J.P. Moreland
Dimensions:	239 x 157 x 27mm (L x W x T)
Format:	Hardcover
Pages:	294
ISBN-13:	978-1-4985-7990-2
Categories:	Books > Humanities > Religion & beliefs > General > Philosophy of religion > General Books > Humanities > Philosophy > Western philosophy > Modern Western philosophy, c 1600 to the present > Western philosophy, from c 1900 - > General Books > Philosophy > Western philosophy > Modern Western philosophy, c 1600 to the present > Western philosophy, from c 1900 - > General Books > Religion & Spirituality > General > Philosophy of religion > General
LSN:	1-4985-7990-6
Barcode:	9781498579902

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