Naturalism and Its Challenges

This volume features new essays on the application, justification and role of naturalism in philosophical inquiry. It serves as an important update on current controversies about naturalism.

Gary N. Kemp has been a member of the Philosophy Department at Glasgow since 1997. He has written on Frege, Wittgenstein, Davidson, and Quine, various topics in the Philosophy of Language, and also on aesthetics, often about Wollheim. In addition to the two volumes edited with Ali Hossein Khani, on Wittgenstein, Wittgenstein and Other Philosophers, Volume I and II (Routledge, forthcoming), he has written two books on Quine: Quine versus Davidson and Quine's Philosophy. Ali Hossein Khani is Assistant Professor at the Iranian Institute of Philosophy, Science Studies Group. His publications have been mainly on Quine, Davidson, Wittgenstein, and Wright. He is the author of a monograph on Kripke, Kripke's Wittgenstein: Meaning, Rules, and Scepticism (Anthem Press, forthcoming), and the co-editor, with Gary N. Kemp, of two volumes on Wittgenstein, Wittgenstein and Other Philosophers, Volumes I and II (Routledge, forthcoming). Hossein Sheykh Rezaee is Assistant Professor at the Iranian Institute of Philosophy, Science Studies Group. He has graduated from Durham University, UK. His fields of interest include the social aspects/construction of science and technology, the fictional and metaphorical aspects of scientific models, and the role of values in science and technology. Hassan Amiriara is Assistant Professor at the Iranian Institute of Philosophy, Science Studies Group. He has graduated from the Iranian Institute of Philosophy. His primary areas of interest include the metaphysics of science, the metaphysics of time and metametaphysics.

Preface Foreword: Naturalisms Philip Kitcher 1. Naturalism Graham Oppy 2. What Comes Naturally: Relaxed Naturalism's New Philosophy of Nature Daniel D. Hutto and Ian Robertson 3. Naturalistic Emergence Stephen Mumford 4. Categories, Naturalism and Materialism Nick Zangwill 5. Physicalism, Intentionality and Normativity: The Essential Explanatory Gap Anandi Hattiangadi 6. Considerations on Naturalism Peter van Inwagen 7. The Islamicization of Naturalism Hajj Muhammad Legenhausen 8. Naturalism and Carnapian Tolerance Peter Hylton 9. Quine and Naturalism David Papineau 10. A Blue-Collar Version of Quine's Naturalism Gary Kemp 11. Naturalizing Metaphysics: Epistemological Challenges Anjan Chakravartty 12. The 'intelligent' capacitarian approach to responsible agency Victoria McGeer 13. A Naturalistic Approach To Moral Epistemology Hilary Kornblith 14. Naturalising the Philosophy of Time Heather Dyke 15. Naturalism and Simulationism in the Philosophy of Memory Nikola Andonovski and Kourken Michaelian 16. Intelligence naturalized, Turing-style Diane Proudfoot 17. Remarks on Some Varieties of Naturalism Timothy Williamson 18. Emancipatory Epistemology Quassim Cassam