A Qualification of Methodological Naturalism: Brightman and de Vries Revisited
In this study I analyze what Edgar Sheffield Brightman and Paul de Vries originally meant by methodological naturalism, when they first invented the term and then argue that both of them proposed a significantly qualified version of scientific naturalism over against the predominance of a reductioni...
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Format: | Electronic Article |
Language: | English |
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2022
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Theology and science
Year: 2022, Volume: 20, Issue: 2, Pages: 166-178 |
RelBib Classification: | VA Philosophy |
Further subjects: | B
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B Metaphysical naturalism B epistemic reductionism B Edgar Sheffield Brightman B Paul de Vries B Methodological Naturalism |
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Summary: | In this study I analyze what Edgar Sheffield Brightman and Paul de Vries originally meant by methodological naturalism, when they first invented the term and then argue that both of them proposed a significantly qualified version of scientific naturalism over against the predominance of a reductionist version of scientific naturalism called epistemic reductionism or scientism—that is, an unjustified epistemological assumption that science is the only legitimate way to truth. In the final analysis, I propose a qualified re-definition of methodological naturalism with emphasis on the self-restricted application of the naturalistic method to natural sciences alone. |
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ISSN: | 1474-6719 |
Contains: | Enthalten in: Theology and science
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Persistent identifiers: | DOI: 10.1080/14746700.2022.2051249 |