Responses to Naturalism

"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