RT Article
T1 Methodological naturalism and its misconceptions
JF International journal for philosophy of religion
VO 82
IS 3
SP 321
OP 336
A1 Smith, Tiddy
LA English
YR 2017
UL https://ixtheo.de/Record/1567861466
AB Methodological naturalism has been defended on both intrinsic and pragmatic grounds. Both of these defenses agree that methodological naturalism is a principle of science according to which the scientist ought to eschew talk of causally efficacious disembodied minds. I argue that this is the wrong interpretation of methodological naturalism. Methodological naturalism does not constrain the theories that scientists may conjecture, but how those theories may be justified. On this view, methodological naturalism is a principle of science according to which supernatural methods of justification, such as faith, are eschewed.
K1 Creationism
K1 Empiricism
K1 Faith
K1 Methodological Naturalism
K1 Naturalism
K1 RELIGION & science
K1 Religious Aspects
DO 10.1007/s11153-017-9616-3