Philosophical Naturalism & Its Implications

source: Philosophical Overdose    2013年3月9日
Alex Rosenberg and Owen Flanagan discuss naturalism within philosophy and whether it eliminates all purpose, value, free will, and meaning within the world. Rosenberg argues that it does. By invoking Darwin, he argues that it not only eliminates such things in the natural universe, but in the human sphere as well. They also discuss some possible implications for ethics and politics. As an epistemological thesis, naturalism is the view that the empirical methods of natural science are the best or only ways of knowing about the world. As an ontological thesis, it rules out the existence of anything immaterial, incorporeal, or spiritual (e.g. minds, souls, gods, universals, forms, abstract entities, etc.). But what does this nationalism imply for things like consciousness, intentionality, morality, free will, the self, and meaning? These also seem difficult to fit within a purely mechanistic, natural material world which contains nothing but mindless, meaningless physical particles. Such issues are discussed here.
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Philosophical Naturalism (Moving Naturalism Forward Sessions)

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source: Sean Carroll     2012年12月10日
A number of well known philosophers & scientists discuss the project of naturalism & some of the issues which arise regarding consciousness, free will, emergence, reductionism, meaning, morality, reality, & the relation between science & philosophy.
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The participants included:
Daniel Dennett, Philosophy
Sean Carroll, Physics
Massimo Pigliucci, Philosophy
Steven Weinberg, Physics
Owen Flanagan, Philosophy
Richard Dawkins, Biology
Alex Rosenberg, Philosophy
Terrence Deacon, Anthropology
Rebecca Goldstein, Philosophy/Lit
Simon DeDeo, Complex Systems
Janna Levin, Physics/Literature
David Poeppel, Neuroscience
Don Ross, Economics/Philosophy
Jerry Coyne, Biology

Moving Naturalism Forward: Day 1, Morning, 1st Session Introduction  1:18:15
Moving Naturalism Forward: Day 1, Morning, 2nd Session "What is Real?"  1:32:50
Moving Naturalism Forward: Day 1, Afternoon, 1st Session Emergence & Reduction 1:27:03
Moving Naturalism Forward, Day 1, Afternoon, 2nd Session Emergence & Reduction (cont)  1:42:37
Moving Naturalism Forward: Day 2, Morning, 1st Session Morality  1:35:02
Moving Naturalism Forward: Day 2, Morning, 2nd Session Meaning 1:31:33
Moving Naturalism Forward: Day 2, Afternoon, 1st Session Free Will 1:29:21
Moving Naturalism Forward: Day 2, Afternoon, 2nd Session Consciousness 2:07:20
Moving Naturalism Forward: Day 3, 1st Session Philosophy & Science  1:22:35
Moving Naturalism Forward: Day 3, 2nd Session Final Thoughts  1:03:08