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Naturalism – Challenges and New Perspectives
The paradigm of so-called scientific naturalism has received a growing amount of critical attention from within and outside of analytic philosophy in the last few decades. The main thrust of a host of these critiques is to “soften” the claim of scientific naturalism by rejecting its reductionist or even eliminativist implications, yet retaining a commitment to naturalism under a new description. Within the analytic tradition, naturalism has been critiqued since the 1990s by thinkers like Hornsby, Strawson, Nagel, Stroud, Putnam, McDowell or more recently Lynne Rudder Baker, Mario De Caro, David Macarthur, Beale & Kidd, Cahill & Raleigh. Such critiques are commonly motivated by Neo-Aristotelian and/or Wittgensteinian intuitions. From outside the analytic tradition, phenomenologists in the Husserlian tradition as well as thinkers in the Idealist tradition have been steadfastly critical of naturalism as well, albeit for different reasons.
The purpose of this special issue of TOPOI is to further advance the fruitful growing debate surrounding critical engagements with naturalism by inviting both historically informed as well as contemporary perspectives.
Editors
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Thomas J. Spiegel, guest Editor
Dr. Thomas J. Spiegel was awarded his PhD from the University of Leipzig in 2017 and has been wissenschaftlicher Mitarbeiter at the chair of theoretical philosophy at the University of Potsdam since 2018. His work focuses on naturalism and the scientific image, social ontology, and social epistemology. He is the author of Naturalism, Quietism, and the Threat to Philosophy (2021) and the co-editor of McDowell and the Hermeneutic Tradition (forthcoming with Routledge). Website: www.tjspiegel.com Email: thomas.j.spiegel@gmail.com
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Simon Schüz, guest Editor
Dr. Simon Schüz is assistant professor (wissenschaftlicher Mitarbeiter) at the Rheinland-Pfälzische Technische Universität in Landau, Germany. He holds a PhD in philosophy from the University of Tübingen. Among his recent publications are the monograph “Transzendentale Argumente bei Hegel und Fichte” (De Gruyter 2023) and the article “Rehabilitating Transcendental Arguments” (forthcoming in Ergo: An Open Access Journal of Philosophy). Homepage: https://uni-landau.academia.edu/SimonSchuez Email: simon.schuez@rptu.de
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Gustav Melichar, handling Editor
Gustav Melichar is a research associate at Heidelberg University Hospital. He received his PhD in philosophy from Tuebingen University. His main research interests are philosophy of psychology, especially 4EA-cognition and phenomenological psychopathology, and German Idealism. Recent publications: “Vertrauen, Autonomie, Ziele. Zu einem aristotelischen und phänomenologischen Konzept des transformativen Vertrauens”, Zeitschr. für Ethik und Moralphil. (ZEMO); “Harmony as a model for the human soul? Simmias’ objections and Plato’s concept of the soul in the Phaedo”, Int. J. of the Platonic Tradition. Contact: gustav.melichar@posteo.net
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Dan Kaplan, guest Editor
Dan Kaplan is currently a postdoctoral researcher at Concordia University in Montreal, Canada. He received his PhD from the University of Pittsburgh in 2022. He works on issues in philosophy of logic, logic, philosophy of language and epistemology. He also maintains interest in Aristotle and classical German philosophy. dankaplan.philosophy@gmail.com
