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4 days ago · Why think that accepting content naturalism—and thus also accepting methodological naturalism—should be the default view? This question is the focus of the present chapter. In what follows I will argue that content naturalism is a relatively natural and attractive position to take with respect to the relationship between metaphysics and science.
2 days ago · Pragmatist philosophy of religion has, since the early days of the tradition, developed distinctive accounts of (what we now call) “situated” religious cognition highly relevant to currently ongoing discussions in this developing field. This paper focuses on William James’s pragmatism as an important example of such an approach in the philosophy of religion. Some central “situational” themes in James are identified, and special attention is given to the relation between the ...
2 days ago · In his exchanges on the nature of aesthetic experience, Carroll (2012; 2015; 2016) departs from the RI in some respects (e.g., in rejecting that ‘being valued for its own sake’ defines aesthetic experience) but adheres to it in others (e.g., when arguing against Goldman (2013) that cognitive insight should be kept separate from the core of aesthetic experience (Carroll 2015, 175)). The pattern is a combination of pulling away and moving towards the RI.
1 day ago · Three periods will be examined relative to evolving perceptions of nature, culture, and human occupation of the natural world: (a) naturalism (c. 1866 –World War II); (b) synthetic naturalism (World War II–c. 1996); and (c) dark naturalism (c. 1996–2017). Postenlightenment, the environmental debate focused on the assiduous observation and documentation of organisms, analytically classifying (and thus speculating on) the roots of the world’s living stock.
1 day ago · One set of essays focus on the genre itself, exploring the historical contexts that gave birth to it, the problem of definition, its interconnections with other genres, the scientific and philosophical ideas that motivate naturalist authors, and the continuing presence of naturalism in twenty-first century fiction.
1 day ago · Peirce's philosophy includes a pervasive three-category system: belief that truth is immutable and is both independent from actual opinion (fallibilism) and discoverable (no radical skepticism), logic as formal semiotic on signs, on arguments, and on inquiry's ways—including philosophical pragmatism (which he founded), critical common-sensism, and scientific method—and, in metaphysics: Scholastic realism, e.g. John Duns Scotus, belief in God, freedom, and at least an attenuated ...
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2 days ago · Immediate empiricism. Inquiry into Moscow show trials about Trotsky. Educational progressivism. Occupational psychosis. John Dewey ( / ˈduːi /; October 20, 1859 – June 1, 1952) was an American philosopher, psychologist, and educational reformer. He was one of the most prominent American scholars in the first half of the twentieth century.
