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The Blackwell Companion to Naturalism

ISBN: 978-1-118-65760-7

December 2015

Wiley-Blackwell

552 pages

Description
The Blackwell Companion to Naturalism provides a systematic introduction to philosophical naturalism and its relation to other schools of thought.

  • Features contributions from an international array of established and emerging scholars from across the humanities
  • Explores the historical development of naturalism and its ascension to the dominant orthodoxy in the Western academy
  • Juxtaposes theoretical criticisms with impassioned defenses, encapsulating contemporary debates on naturalism
  • Includes discussions of metaphysics, realism, feminism, science, knowledge, truth, mathematics, free will, and ethics viewed through a naturalist lens
About the Author
Kelly James Clark is a Senior Research Fellow at the Kaufman Interfaith Institute of Grand Valley State University in Grand Rapids, Michigan. He has published more than twenty books, including Religion and the Sciences of Origins: Historical and Contemporary Discussions (2014), The Story of Ethics: Fulfilling Our Human Nature (with A. Poortenga, 2002) and Return to Reason (1990).