56%
Confidence
Belief overview
Continuity between humans and nature
Humans are part of nature and should be studied in continuity with it.
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Supportive
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Contrary
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Neutral
What it is: Naturalism understands human beings as part of the natural world, not as a completely separate reality from it.
How the position understands it: Body, mind, language, culture, and behavior are analyzed in connection with evolution, biology, society, and history.
Basis and context: The theme was reinforced by Darwinism, anthropology, psychology, and neuroscience.
Debates and variations: There is divergence about how much this continuity allows preserving human singularity without strong dualism.
Documentary evidence
Supportive
Richard Dawkins, The Blind Watchmaker
A naturalistic explanation of biological complexity.
Reference: Richard Dawkins, The Blind Watchmaker.
Content: Natural selection is presented as a mechanism capable of explaining complexity without an interventionist supernatural designer.
Use in debate: It is important for rejecting the explanatory supernatural in biology.
Wilfrid Sellars, Philosophy and the Scientific Image
Integration between the manifest image and the scientific image.
Reference: Wilfrid Sellars, Philosophy and the Scientific Image of Man.
Content: The essay discusses how philosophy and science articulate different levels of description of the human being and the world.
Use in debate: It is important for continuity between the human and nature without immediate simplification.