Table of Contents

1: Introduction
1 Naturalism2: Pillars of the Tradition
3: Naturalism Characterized
2 Ontology4: The Discovery Problem
5: Proper Function
6: Pragmatic Arguments
7: What Price Anti-Realism?
3 Alternatives8: Intuitionism
9: Supernaturalism
References, Index

About the Author

Michael C. Rea is Associate Professor of Philosophy at the University of Notre Dame.

Reviews

... wide-ranging ... however we react to Rea's arguments, they do us the service of forcing us to reflect anew on the epistemology of metaphysics. Australasian Journal of Philosophy The first part of Rea's book is an informed and useful history of naturalism as a philosophical movement ... full of interesting points. Times Literary Supplement ... succinct and penetrating ... Thoroughly researched and richly argued, World Without Design will prove valuable to anyone interested in the naturalistic tradition. Troy Cross, Notre Dame Philosophical Reviews