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Argues against scientific naturalism, or scientism, which holds that the only legitimate claims about the world are those that can be tested by the methods of the natural sciences and proposes instead a rationally defensible form of naturalism that does not reduce philosophical explanations to scientific ones.
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Almeder (philosophy, Georgia State U.) refutes scientific naturalism, or scientism, which holds that the only legitimate claims about the world are those that can be tested by the methods of the natural sciences. He proposes instead a rationally defensible form of naturalism that does not reduce philosophical explanations to scientific ones. Annotation c. by Book News, Inc., Portland, Or.
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