Naturalism Without Foundations

Argues against a Christian philosophical orientation, faith-based fideistic accounts, and the more traditional varieties of natural theology, and develops a naturalistic philosophical account that avoids foundationalism without retreating from atheism. Contains sections on the foundations of a nonscientific historicized naturalism, social philosophy within the limits of reflective equilibrium alone, critical social theory and the fixation of belief, and toward a nonscientistic atheism. Annotation c. by Book News, Inc., Portland, Or.

Kai Nielsen is professor emeritus in the department of philosophy at the University of Calgary and adjunct professor of philosophy at Concordia University.