The Blackwell Companion to Naturalism [Hardcover]

• 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

List of Contributors ix

Preface xii

1 Naturalism and its Discontents 1
Kelly James Clark

2 Naturalizing Ethics 16
Owen Flanagan, Hagop Sarkissian, and David Wong

3 Naturalism in the Continental Tradition 34
Keith Ansell Pearson and John Protevi

4 The Naturalism Question in Feminism 49
?sta Sveinsd?ttir

5 On Naturalistic Metaphysics 61
Thomas M. Crisp

6 Naturalism and Realism in the Philosophy Science 75
Matteo Morganti

7 Naturalism without Scientism 91
P. Kyle Stanford

8 The Horrid Doubt: Naturalism and Evolutionary Biology 109
Valerie Gray Hardcastle

9 Naturalism and Antinaturalism in the Sociology of Science 124
Dorothea Olkowski

10 Why Methodological Naturalism? 136
Hans Halvorsolc"