Philosophia Christi

Volume 24, Issue 1, 2022

Symposium on Jordan Wessling's Love Divine

Robert A. Larmer
Pages 101-118

The Prohibitive Costs of Methodological Naturalism

Methodological naturalism has been widely accepted as a necessary condition of scientific theorizing, the assumption being that it exacts no questionable epistemological or metaphysical costs. In this paper, I argue that this assumption is mistaken. I further argue that the presumed costs of not adopting methodological naturalism are illusory.