A strong version of scientism, such as that of Alex Rosenberg, says, roughly, that natural science reliably delivers rational belief or knowledge, whereas common sense sources of belief, such as moral intuition, memory, and introspection, do not. In this paper I discuss ten reasons that adherents of scientism have or might put forward in defence of scientism. The aim is to show which considerat...

This article considers a special area where pure scientism, separated from humanistic perspectives, has come to define a perspective broadly termed posthumanism, where the modification of human nature is too easily embraced as progress. The humanistic response to this scientism is equally central in this reflection. I offer a perspective on the futility of pure scientism with regard to human pr...

Abstract Scientism has recently experienced a resurgence of interest in philosophy. One version scientism often defended is ontological scientism—the view that any kind or property not mentioned the theories science only subordinate, secondary reality. It worth noting dominant tradition history philosophy science—classical American pragmatism—undertook decades critical engagement with contempor...

Many people assume that there has been ceaseless conflict between science and Christianity. I argue the real scientism religion. Scientism is view only sciences generate knowledge or rational belief. Scientism, as typically articulated, entails opinion reliable belief about divinity (theological realism) impossible. debunk four historic science–Christianity myths show how they have promoted sci...

Let us begin with naturalism itself. These days, most philosophers seem eager to regard themselves as naturalists, but this is possible only because there is so little agreement about what naturalism actually involves or requires. There is, of course, a straightforwardly (and self‐consciously) scientistic form of philosophical naturalism, which simply assumes that the claims of our best scienti...