Relaxed Naturalism and Caring About the Truth

Forum Philosophicum: International Journal for Philosophy 17 (1):89-103 (2012)
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Abstract

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.

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Mark S. McLeod-Harrison
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