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NATURALISM

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  06 October 2020

Graham Oppy
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Abstract

I offer a minimal characterization of naturalism, with ontological, epistemological, psychological and evaluative dimensions. I explain why naturalism is attractive. I note that naturalists disagree among themselves about, among other things, the nature of values, beliefs, and abstractions. I close by responding to some standard objections to naturalism.

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Research Article
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Think , Volume 19 , Issue 56 , Autumn 2020 , pp. 7 - 20
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Copyright © The Royal Institute of Philosophy, 2020

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1 See, for example, Craig, William Lane and Moreland, J. P. (eds.) Naturalism: A Critical Analysis (New York: Routledge, 2000)Google Scholar and Copan, Paul and Taliaferro, Charles (eds.) The Naturalness of Belief (Lanham: Lexington Books, 2019)Google Scholar.