By Kelly James Clark
The Blackwell better half to Naturalism offers a scientific advent to philosophical naturalism and its relation to different faculties of thought.
- Features contributions from a world array of tested and rising students from around the humanities
- Explores the ancient improvement of naturalism and its ascension to the dominant orthodoxy within the Western academy
- Juxtaposes theoretical criticisms with impassioned defenses, encapsulating modern debates on naturalism
- Includes discussions of metaphysics, realism, feminism, technological know-how, wisdom, fact, arithmetic, loose will, and ethics considered via a naturalist lens
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