Episode 18: Truth and Naturalism

Episode Notes and Links

Philosophers Richard Brown and Pete Mandik continue their discussion from the SpaceTimeMind podcast’s Episode 11 on Scientism. Here they focus on naturalistic versions of truth and reality. Can evolution by natural selection ground our ability to represent truths that transcend usefulness? If it can’t, what can?

(Audio for this episode is drawn from the last part of the video chat viewable here: @YouTube.)

• David Lewis (1984) "Putnam's Paradox"
• Gerald Marsh (2010) “Is the Hirsch-Sider Dispute Merely Verbal?”