Open AccessRelaxed Naturalism and Caring About the Truth
Author(s) -
Mark S. McLeod-Harrison
Publication year - 2012
Publication title -
forum philosophicum
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
eISSN - 2353-7043
pISSN - 1426-1898
DOI - 10.35765/forphil.2012.1701.05
Subject(s) - naturalism , epistemology , philosophy , universe , order (exchange) , physics , economics , finance , astrophysics
Can our caring about truth be rooted in “relaxed” naturalism? I argue that it cannot. In order to care about truth we need the universe to be capable of providing non-adventitious good, which relaxed naturalism cannot do. I use Michael Lynch’s work as a springboard to showing this claim.