Naturalism Defeated


	Naturalism Defeated

willhelm

6-8-2007 7:55 PM

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naturalism, materialism, philosophy, evolution, theism

willhelm says:

A paper by Alvin Plantiga. Arguably the greatest philosophical mind alive today.

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<div style="margin: 12px 0px; font-family: arial; color: #333333; background: #ffffff; border: solid 4px #e5e5e5; width: 100%; clear: left;"><div class="CM_CTB_Content_Wrap" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;background-color: #ffffff;"><div style="border-bottom: solid 1px #dcdcdc; white-space: nowrap; margin-bottom: 8px; background-color: #eeeeee ;background-image: url(http://www.clipmarks.com/images/source-bg.gif); background-repeat: repeat-x; height: 24px; line-height: 24px; vertical-align: middle; padding-bottom: 4px; color: #666666; font-size: 10px;" ><a href="http://clipmarks.com/clip-to-blog/" title="see clips that are hot right now"><img src="http://content.clipmarks.com/blog_embed/ca4682b8-0184-462d-aeb1-07d595a56183/BFFED049-D1BD-48C4-836F-7074B5D23F38/" alt="" width="19" height="19" border="0" style="vertical-align: middle; margin: 0px 4px; display: inline; border: none; float:none;" /></a>clipped from <a title="http://www.homestead.com/philofreligion/files/alspaper.htm" href="http://www.homestead.com/philofreligion/files/alspaper.htm" style="font-size: 11px;">www.homestead.com</a></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://www.homestead.com/philofreligion/files/alspaper.htm"><P class="MsoNormal"><SPAN> I argued that naturalism and evolution--'N&E' for <O:P _moz-userdefined=""></O:P></SPAN></p> <P class="MsoNormal"><SPAN>short--furnishes
one who accepts it with a <I>defeater </I>for
the belief that our cognitive faculties are reliable--a defeater that can't <O:P _moz-userdefined=""></O:P></SPAN></p> <P class="MsoNormal"><SPAN>be
defeated.<SPAN>  </SPAN>But then this conjunction
also furnishes a defeater for any belief produced by our cognitive faculties,
including, <O:P _moz-userdefined=""></O:P></SPAN></p> <P class="MsoNormal"><SPAN>in the case of
one who accepts it, N&E itself: hence its self-defeating character.<SPAN>  </SPAN>Now oddly enough, not everyone who has <O:P _moz-userdefined=""></O:P></SPAN></p> <P class="MsoNormal"><SPAN>heard this
argument has leapt to embrace it; there have been a number of fascinating
objections, some published</SPAN><A title="" name="_ftnref4" href="#_ftn4"><SPAN class="MsoFootnoteReference"><SPAN>[4]</SPAN></SPAN></A><SPAN> and some
unpublished.<SPAN>  </SPAN>These objections for the
most part revolve around the notion of a defeater--a notion crucial to
contemporary epistemology, but so far largely unexplored.<SPAN>  </SPAN>In this paper I want to examine and respond
to those objections, in the process <O:P _moz-userdefined=""></O:P></SPAN></p> <P class="MsoNormal"><SPAN>hoping to
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