Physical causes and rational belief: A problem for materialism?

This dissertation is an examination of the merits of an argument that naturalism is self-stultifying because it is incompatible with the possibility of rational inference. Since naturalists are committed not only to the view that nothing exists but nature, but are also to the truthfulness of the natural sciences, such an incompatibility, if shown to exist, would be very damaging. This argument has been put forward by various persons in this century; two versions in C. S. Lewis are my primary paradigms for the argument in question.

Name thesis:degree_name

Ph.D.

Level thesis:degree_level

Dissertation

Discipline thesis:degree_discipline

Philosophy

Grantor

University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign

Year dc:date

2011

Author dc:creator

• Reppert, Victor Eugene

Contributors dc:contributor

• Chandler, Hugh S.
• McKim, Robert

• Philosophy

Statement dc:rights

• Copyright 1989 Reppert, Victor Eugene

Language dc:language

eng

Identifier

AAI9010997
(UMI)AAI9010997

OAI identifier oai:identifier

oai:www.ideals.illinois.edu:2142/22587