RT Book T1 Naturalism and our knowledge of reality: testing religious truth-claims T2 Ashgate new critical thinking in religion, theology and biblical studies A1 Smith, R. Scott 1957- LA English PP Farnham u.a. PB Ashgate YR 2012 UL https://ixtheo.de/Record/1605084530 NO Formerly CIP Uk. - Includes bibliographical references and index. - Introduction -- Direct realism. An introduction to direct realism : the views of D.M. Armstrong -- The representationalism of Dretske, Tye, and Lycan -- Searle's naturalism and the prospects for knowledge -- Philosophy as science : neuroscience, neurophilosophy, and naturalized epistemology. Cognitive science, philosophy, and our knowledge of reality, pt. 1. The views of David Papineau -- Cognitive science, philosophy, and our knowledge of reality, pt. 2. The views of Daniel Dennett -- Can the Churchlands' neurocomputational theory cognition ground a viable epistemology? (by Errin Clark) -- Other alternatives, and naturalism's future. Other proposals : Pollock's internalism, Kim's functionalism (with Peggy Burke), and more externalist considerations -- The future directions of naturalism -- A positive case for our knowledge of reality -- Methodological naturalism and the scientific method, and other implications CN 200.1 SN 978-1-4094-3486-3 K1 Knowledge, Theory of (Religion) K1 Philosophy, Christian K1 Theism K1 Knowledge, Theory of K1 Naturalism