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"Though nominalism is a major presupposition in academia and western society, R. Scott Smith shows that nominalism undermines all knowledge whatsoever. In light of the many clear examples of knowledge that we do have, nominalism should be replaced by a realist view of properties"--

"Though nominalism is a major presupposition in academia and western society, R. Scott Smith shows that nominalism undermines all knowledge whatsoever. In light of the many clear examples of knowledge that we do have, nominalism should be replaced by a realist view of properties"--

Though nominalism is a major presupposition in academia and western society, R. Scott Smith shows that nominalism undermines all knowledge whatsoever. In light of the many clear examples of knowledge that we do have, nominalism should be replaced by a realist view of properties.

11 Assessing MacIntyre's and Hauerwas's ProjectsPart Three: Toward a Theory of Moral Knowledge; 12 Moral Realism and Addressing the Crisis of (Moral) Knowledge; 13 Religiously Based Moral Knowledge-and Final Issues; Index; Praise for In Search of Moral Knowledge; About the Author; More Titles from InterVarsity Press.

Intro -- From Every Mountainside: Black Churches and the Broad Terrain of Civil Rights -- Contents -- Acknowledgments -- Introduction -- Mid-Twentieth Century Church Activism Beyond the South -- Chapter 1: Black Church Divisions and Civil Rights Activism in Chicago -- Chapter 2: The NAACP, Black Churches, and the Struggle for Black Empowerment in New Haven, 1955-1961 -- Chapter 3: Ruby Hurley, U.S. Protestantism, and NAACP Student Work, 1940-1950 -- Chapter 4: Black Churches, Peoples Temple, and Civil Rights Politics in San Francisco -- Chapter 5: Philadelphia's Opportunities Industrialization Center and the Black Church's Quest for Economic Justice -- Chapter 6: The Black Panther Party and the Black Church -- Chapter 7: Racial Discrimination and the Radical Politics of New York Clergyman, Milton A. Galamison -- Public Sphere Capital and Contemporary Rights Expectations -- Chapter 8: Black Clergy, Educational Fairness, and Pursuit of the Common Good -- Chapter 9: Black Churches and Black Voter Suppression in Florida and Ohio -- Chapter 10: African American Churches, Health Care, and the Health Reform Debate -- Chapter 11: The Obama Administration, Faith-Based Policy, and Religious Groups' Hiring Rights -- Prevailing Boundaries of Social Difference -- Chapter 12: Black Church Burnings in the 1990s and Faith-Based Responses -- Chapter 13: Civil Rights Rhetoric in Media Coverage of Marriage Equality Debates: Massachusetts and Georgia -- Chapter 14: The Feminization of HIV/AIDS and Passivity of Black Church Responses in Denver and Beyond -- Chapter 15: Black Churches and African American Opinion on Immigration Policy -- Chapter 16: Religious Others and a New Blackness in Post-9/11 California -- Contributors -- Index.

Introduction -- Direct realism. An introduction to direct realism : the views of D.M. Armstrong -- The representationalism of Dretske, Tye, and Lycan -- Searle's naturalism and the prospects for knowledge -- Philosophy as science : neuroscience, neurophilosophy, and naturalized epistemology. Cognitive science, philosophy, and our knowledge of reality, pt. 1. The views of David Papineau -- Cognitive science, philosophy, and our knowledge of reality, pt. 2. The views of Daniel Dennett -- Can the Churchlands' neurocomputational theory cognition ground a viable epistemology? (by Errin Clark) -- Other alternatives, and naturalism's future. Other proposals : Pollock's internalism, Kim's functionalism (with Peggy Burke), and more externalist considerations -- The future directions of naturalism -- A positive case for our knowledge of reality -- Methodological naturalism and the scientific method, and other implications

Philosophical naturalism is taken to be the preferred and reigning epistemology and metaphysics that underwrites many ideas and knowledge claims. But what if we cannot know reality on that basis? What if the institution of science is threatened by its reliance on naturalism? The book offers fresh implications for the testing of religious truth-claims, science, ethics, education, and public policy. Consequently, naturalism and the fact-value split are shown to be false and Christian theism is shown to be true.