Scientific naturalism includes:
1. Different aspects of a naturalist epistemic
attitude (e.g. acceptance of naturalized epistemology, a rejection of so-called
first philosophy along with an acceptance of either weak or strong scientism);
2. An etiological account of how all entities
whatsoever have come to be, constituted by an event-causal story (especially
the atomic theory of matter and evolutionary biology) described in natural
scientific terms; and
3. A general ontology in which the only entities allowed
are ones that bear a relevant similarity to those thought to characterize a
completed form of physics. Whether or not this ontology should be expanded to
include sui generis emergent
properties, e.g. secondary qualities, normative or mental properties, will
occupy our attention shortly.
[souce: Consciousness and the Existence of God: A
theistic argument]
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