Argument C. S. Lewisa przeciwko naturalizmowi (przeł. Anna Mazurek i Michał Buraczewski)

Peter van Inwagen; Anna Mazurek; Michał Buraczewski

doi:10.18290/rf.2019.67.2-8

Peter van Inwagen The John Cardinal O’Hara Professor of Philosophy
Anna Mazurek Faculty of Philosophy, John Paul II Catholic University of Lublin https://orcid.org/0000-0002-7871-7429
Michał Buraczewski Faculty of Philosophy, John Paul II Catholic University of Lublin https://orcid.org/0000-0002-3710-1644

DOI: https://doi.org/10.18290/rf.2019.67.2-8

Keywords: naturalism; C. S. Lewis; “the cardinal difficulty of naturalism”; argument against naturalism; reasoning

Abstract

Original: Peter van Inwagen, “C. S. Lewis’s Argument against Naturalism”, The Journal of Inklings Studies 1 (2011), no. 2 (October): 25–40. Translation with permission of the author.

This paper is an evaluation of the argument of Chapter 3 (“The Cardinal Difficulty of Naturalism”) of the second edition of C. S. Lewis’s Miracles. This argument is an attempt to demonstrate that naturalism implies that none of our beliefs is based on reasoning — a “cardinal difficulty for naturalism,” since a belief in naturalism that was not based on reasoning would be irrational. The conclusion of the paper is Lewis’s argument fails to show that naturalism implies that none of our beliefs is based on reasoning.

Author Biographies

Anna Mazurek, Faculty of Philosophy, John Paul II Catholic University of Lublin

Translator
PhD student

Michał Buraczewski, Faculty of Philosophy, John Paul II Catholic University of Lublin

Translator
PhD student

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C. S. Lewis’s Argument against Naturalism (trans. Anna Mazurek and Michał Buraczewski

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