Relaxed Naturalism and Caring About the Truth

• Authors: Mark McLeod-Harrison
• Languages of publication: EN

Abstracts

EN

Can our caring about truth be rooted in "relaxed" naturalism? I argue that it cannot. In order to care about truth we need the universe to be capable of providing non-adventitious good, which relaxed naturalism cannot do. I use Michael Lynch's work as a springboard to showing this claim.

Keywords

EN

Naturalism; Materialism; Philosophy of Nature; Realism (Sociology); Truth; Belief & Doubt

• Publisher: Akademia Ignatianum w Krakowie
• Journal: Forum Philosophicum
• Year: 2012
• Volume: 17
• Issue: 1
• Pages: 89-103

Contributors

author

Mark McLeod-Harrison

• George Fox University, Newberg, OR

References

• Alston, William P. A Realist Conception of Truth. Ithaca: Cornell University Press, 1996.
• Goetz, Stewart, and Charles Taliaferro. Naturalism. Grand Rapids: Eerdmans, 2008.
• Lynch, Michael P. True to Life: Why Truth Matters. Cambridge, MA: MIT Press, 2004.
• Lynch, Michael P. Truth as One and Many. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2009.
• Lynch, Michael P. Truth in Context. Cambridge, MA: MIT Press, 1998.
• McDowell, John. Mind and World. Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press, 1996.

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George Fox University, Newberg, OR

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