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Naturalism and Our Knowledge of Reality: Testing Religious Truth-claims

  • Paperback
  • 254 pages
  • Publisher: Routledge
  • 15.6 x 23.4 x 1.4 cm

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Philosophical naturalism is taken to be the preferred and reigning epistemology and metaphysics that underwrites many ideas and knowledge claims. But what if we cannot know reality on that basis? What if the institution of science is threatened by its reliance on naturalism? R. Scott Smith argues in a fresh way that we cannot know reality on the basis of naturalism. Moreover, the "fact-value" split has failed to serve our interests of wanting to know reality. The author provocatively argues that since we can know reality, it must be due to a non-naturalistic ontology, best explained by the fact that human knowers are made and designed by God. The book offers fresh implications for the testing of religious truth-claims, science, ethics, education, and public policy. Consequently, naturalism and the fact-value split are shown to be false, and Christian theism is shown to be true.
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Naturalism and Our Knowledge of Reality : Testing Religious Truth-claimsNaturalism and Our Knowledge of Reality: Testing Religious Truth-claims

  • Title

    Naturalism and Our Knowledge of Reality: Testing Religious Truth-claims

  • Author

    R. Scott Smith

  • Book Format

    Paperback

  • Publisher

    Routledge

  • Published

    December 2021

  • Weight

    467g

  • Page Count

    254

  • Dimensions

    15.6 x 23.4 x 1.4 cm

  • ISBN

    9781032243078

  • ISBN-10

    1032243074

  • Eden Code

    5643419