TY  - JOUR
A1  - Spiegel, Thomas Jussuf
T1  - Liberal naturalism without reenchantment
JF  - European journal for philosophy of religion
N2  - There is a close conceptual relation between the notions of religious disenchantment and scientific naturalism. One way of resisting philosophical and cultural implications of the scientific image and the subsequent process of disenchantment can be found in attempts at sketching a reenchanted worldview. The main issue of accounts of reenchantment can be a rejection of scientific results in a way that flies in the face of good reason. Opposed to such reenchantment is scientific naturalism which implies an entirely disenchanted worldview. However, one of the main problems of scientific naturalism are placement problems. A reenchanted worldview does have the conceptual resources to avoid placement problems, yet seems to throw out the baby (a reasonable appeal to science as an authority) with the bathwater (placement problems). A dilemma results: the Scylla of an undesirable scientific naturalism and the Charybdis of a rampant, seemingly prescientific reenchanted worldview. In this article I argue that there is a safe middle passage between these two options, i.e. the recently proposed liberal naturalism which allows for a moderate normative reenchantment. Liberal naturalism lets us have it both ways: avoiding the placement problems while retaining a necessary and reasonable adherence to science, thereby avoiding both an all-too restrictive scientific naturalism.
KW  - Naturalism
KW  - Liberal Naturalism
KW  - Disenchantment
KW  - Secularism
Y1  - 2022
U6  - https://doi.org/10.24204/EJPR.2022.3350
SN  - 1689-8311
VL  - 14
IS  - 1
SP  - 207
EP  - 229
PB  - University of Innsbruck
CY  - Innsbruck
ER  -