The Problem of Naturalism: Analytic and Continental Perspectives, investigates how the term naturalism is defined and applied in the philosophic secondary literature from two often competing perspectives: analytic and Continental. The book offers its own justification and explication for naturalism by arguing that naturalism is best thought of as an attitude and not as a methodological or substantive position.
The Problem of Naturalism: Analytic and Continental Perspectives, investigates how the term naturalism is defined and applied in the philosophic secondary literature from two often competing perspectives: analytic and Continental. The book offers its own justification and explication for naturalism by arguing that naturalism is best thought of as an attitude and not as a methodological or substantive position.
Brian Lightbody is associate professor of philosophy at Brock University in Ontario, Canada. He is the author of Philosophical Genealogy and co-editor of The Logic of Incarnation. He has authored numerous articles and book chapters on such thinkers as: Nietzsche, Foucault, Haack and Marcuse.
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Introduction Chapter One: What is Naturalism? Chapter Two: Methodological Naturalism Chapter Three: Substance Naturalism Chapter Four: Varieties of Naturalism: Ontological Naturalism Chapter Five: Varieties of Naturalism: Epistemological Naturalism Chapter Six: Varieties of Naturalism: Ethical Naturalism Conclusion Endnotes Bibliography