Routledge Handbook of Liberal Naturalism

<p>The central question of naturalism - the relation of philosophy to science - was one of the defining strands of twentieth-century thought and remains a major source of debate and controversy. Today many argue that philosophy should fold itself into the sciences, especially the natural sciences. Liberal naturalists argue that such scientific naturalism demands reductive and Procrustean conceptions of knowledge and reality. Moreover, many philosophical problems are beyond the scope of the sciences, such as the nature of persons, the normativity of the space of reasons, and how best to understand the peculiar mix of objectivity and subjectivity of ethics and art.</p><p>The Routledge Handbook of Liberal Naturalism is the first collection to present a comprehensive overview of liberal naturalism, a philosophical outlook that lies between scientific naturalism and supernaturalism. Comprising 37 chapters by an international team of contributors, it examines important cutting-edge topics including:</p><ul> <p> </p> <li>what is liberal naturalism?</li> <li>is metaphysics a viable project?</li> <li>naturalism in the history of philosophy, including Hume, Dewey, and Quine</li> <li>contemporary liberal naturalists such as P.F. Strawson, John McDowell, Hilary Putnam, and John Rawls</li> <li>related kinds of naturalism, including subject naturalism, common-sense naturalism and biological naturalism</li> <li>the bearing of liberal naturalism on contemporary debates in epistemology, philosophy of mind, ethics and aesthetics.</li> </ul><p>Essential reading for students and researchers in all areas of philosophy, this volume will be of particular interest for those studying philosophical naturalism, philosophy of science, metaphysics, epistemology, philosophy of mind, ethics and aesthetics.</p> <p>Introduction <i>Mario De Caro and David Macarthur </i><b>Part 1: Historical Naturalisms and their Relation to Liberal Naturalism </b>1. Aristotle and Liberal Naturalism <i>Riccardo Chiaradonna </i>2. Spinoza and Liberal Naturalism <i>Alex Douglas </i>3. Hume and Liberal Naturalism <i>Benedict Smith </i>4. Kant on Nature and Humanity <i>Allen Wood </i>5. Nietzsche’s Naturalism: Neither Liberal Nor Illiberal <i>Brian Leiter </i>6. Husserlian Phenomenology and Liberal Naturalism <i>Andrea Staiti </i>7. Merleau-Ponty and Liberal Naturalism <i>Jack Reynolds </i>8. Classical Pragmatism and Liberal Naturalism <i>Steven Levine </i><b>Part 2: Theoretical Cousins of Liberal Naturalism </b>9. Quine’s Naturalism: Neither "Reductive" Nor "Liberal" <i>Garry Ebbs </i>10. Wilfrid Sellars and Liberal Naturalism <i>Willem De Vries </i>11. Foot and Liberal Naturalism <i>Gabriele De Anna </i>12. Bernard Williams’s Liberal Naturalism <i>Sophie-Grace Chappell </i>13. Price’s Subject Naturalism and Liberal Naturalism <i>Lionel Shapiro </i>14. Relaxed Naturalism: A Liberating Philosophy of Nature <i>Dan Hutto </i>15. Liberal or Radical Naturalism <i>Joseph Rouse </i>16. Naturalism as a Stance <i>Jack Ritchie </i><b>Part 3: Challenges for Liberal Naturalism </b>17. Pluralistic Realism and Liberal Naturalism <i>Mario De Caro </i>18. Liberal Naturalism and God <i>Fiona Ellis </i>19. Taylor and Liberal Naturalism <i>Nicholas Smith </i>20. Can Selves be Naturalized? The Problem of Temporal Perspective <i>Patrick Stokes </i>21. Liberal Naturalism, Ontological Commitment and Explanation <i>Matteo Morganti </i>22. Naturalism with Chinese Characteristics <i>Barry Allen </i><b>Part 4: Applications of Liberal Naturalism </b>23. Aesthetics and Liberal Naturalism: Art Up Close and Personal <i>David Macarthur </i>24. Liberal Naturalism, Aesthetic Reflection and the Sublime <i>Jennifer A. McMahon </i>25. Philosophy of Perception and Liberal Naturalism <i>Thomas Raleigh </i>26. Ethics and Liberal Naturalism <i>Hans Fink </i>27. Kantian Constitutivism and the Naturalistic Challenge <i>Carla Bagnoli </i>28. The Rational Wolf: Moral Philosophy as Key to McDowell’s Liberal Naturalism <i>Sofia Miguens </i>29. Rawls and Liberal Naturalism <i>Paul Patton </i>30. Scientific Naturalism and Normative Explanation <i>Robert Audi </i>31. Scientism and Liberal Naturalism <i>Massimo Pigliucci </i>32. Liberal Naturalism and the Foundations of Psychoanalysis <i>Talia Morag </i>33. Actualism as a Form of Liberal Naturalism <i>Paul Redding </i>34. Critical Naturalism for the Human Sciences <i>Daniel Andler </i>35. Jürgen Habermas and Liberal Naturalism <i>Paul Giladi </i>36. Strawson and Non-Revisionary Naturalism <i>Hans-Johann Glock </i>37. Hilary Putnam and Liberal Naturalism <i>Massimo Dell’Utri. </i><i>Index</i></p>