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Author(s): Louis Caruana
ISBN(s): 9783034310178, 303431017X
Edition: 1
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Year: 2012
Language: english
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ISBN 10: 303431017X 

ISBN 13: 9783034310178

Author: Louis Caruana

Many philosophers adopt methods that emulate those of the natural sciences. They call such an overall approach naturalism, and consider it indispensable for fruitful philosophical debate in various areas. In spite of this consensus however, little is ever said about how naturalism depends on the underlying idea of nature, which we often endorse unconsciously. If we can determine how naturalism reflects an underlying account of nature, we would be in a better position to distinguish between different kinds of naturalism and to assess the merits of each. This book undertakes a sustained study of the concept of nature to answer this need. It examines in detail how conceptual, historical, and scientific constraints affect the concept of nature in various domains of philosophy, and how, in the opposite sense, these constraints are themselves affected by the concept of nature. In so doing, this book relates the conceptual framework of scientific inquiry back to the lived experience that is proper to everyday self-understanding.

Table of contents:

Chapter 1 – Nature: a short history

  1. The dynamic view of Nature

  2. The mechanistic view of Nature

  3. The Romantic view of Nature

  4. The evolutionary view of Nature

Chapter 2 – Explaining Nature

  1. Observation

  2. The elements of the logic of explanation

  3. The practice of explanation

  4. Explanation and nature

Chapter 3 – Causes

  1. Causation detached from nature

  2. The concepts of causation and nature reunited?

  3. Natural causers

  4. Causal pluralism

Chapter 4 – The Limits of Causation

  1. What is the universe?

  2. The cause of the universe

  3. First objection: randomness

  4. Second objection: infinite regress

  5. Third objection: transcendence

Chapter 5 – Nature and ordinary language

  1. Ordinary language about the mind

  2. Ontological implications

  3. A new account of the mental

  4. Evaluation

Chapter 6 – Nature and Meaning

  1. The Tractatus

  2. The Philosophical Investigations

  3. Nature and meaning

Chapter 7 – Levels in Nature

  1. Emergent properties

  2. Habits as emergent properties

  3. Consciousness as an emergent property

  4. Conclusion

Chapter 8 – Nature, Evolution and Mind

  1. The evolutionary account of nature revisited

  2. Biology and culture

  3. Animal cognition

  4. Mind and language

  5. A synthetic account

  6. Conclusion

Chapter 9 – Nature, Value, and Morality

  1. Preliminary remarks on value and right action

  2. Evolutionary ethics

  3. A synthetic approach

  4. Conclusion

Chapter 10 – Nature and Concepts

  1. Microstructure

  2. A priori knowledge

  3. Conceptual analysis: two further clarifications

  4. Conclusion

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