Responses to Naturalism

Paul Giladi is Senior Lecturer in Philosophy at Manchester Metropolitan University, and an honorary research fellow at the University of Sheffield. He has published articles in leading philosophy journals and edited collections on Hegel, pragmatism, critical social theory, feminism, and contemporary Anglo-American philosophy. Dr. Giladi is also the editor of Hegel and the Frankfurt School (Routledge, 2021), as well as the co-editor (with Nicola McMillan) of the forthcoming Routledge collection Epistemic Injustice and the Philosophy of Recognition.

"The book contains some very well-mastered interpretive returns to classical philosophical texts … one great accomplishment of this volume is that it brings philosophical idealism back into the discussion in a… vigorous way, and in a form that makes it capable of an intriguing confrontation with various versions of contemporary philosophical naturalism."—Róbert Maco, Comenius University, Slovakia"The contributors are scholars at the forefront of the idealist and pragmatist resurgence, and the book thus has a lively contemporary spirit … a collection of excellent work. It is the perfect prolegomenon, I think, to the next phase of the response to naturalism: uniting the best insights of pragmatism and idealism against scientific naturalism and its placement problems. For those, like me, who are committed to finding a way to do that—or, indeed, those who think that only the right version of either pragmatism or idealism alone can do the trick—this volume will prove indispensable."—Brandon Beasley, University of Calgary, Canada"The endeavour is definitely original. Traditionally, responses to naturalism have tried to broaden the concept of ‘nature’, while the attempt here pursued is to enrich the very idea of ‘reason’—namely, to articulate a (meta)philosophical proposal that, starting from the multi-dimensionality of discourse about the natural world and normativity, is eventually able to remove the most persistent theoretical as well as historiographical totems of naturalism … many of [the essays] contained in Responses to Naturalism [are] extremely rich, articulate and [are] perfectly framed within the general objectives of the volume edited by Giladi."—Antonio M. Nunziante, University of Padova, Italy

• IntroductionPaul Giladi Part I: Idealist Responses to Naturalism1. Moral Natural Norms: A Kantian Perspective on Some Neo-Aristotelian ArgumentsKaterina Deligiorgi2. Naturalism and the Primacy of the Practical: Kant on the Form of Theoretical and Practical ReasonJohannes Haag3. The Placement Problem and the Threat of Voyeurism Paul Giladi4. The Idealist Challenge to NaturalismAlexis Papazoglou 5. An Hegelian Actualist Alternative to NaturalismPaul Redding6. How to (and not to) Defend the Manifest ImageGiuseppina D’OroPart II: Pragmatist Responses to Naturalism7. From the Experimentalist Disposition to the Absolute: Peirce’s Pragmatic NaturalismShannon Dea & Nathan Haydon8. Common-sense and NaturalismMario De Caro9. Peirce and Methodological NaturalismGabriele Gava10. Picturing: Naturalism and the Design of a More Ideal TruthWillem A. deVries11. Rethinking Sellars’s NaturalismSteven Levine12. Pragmatic Naturalism: The Authority of Reason, The Agrippan Trilemma, and the Significance of Philosophising in medias resDavid Macarthur