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- Title
NATÜRALİZM VE TEİZM AÇISINDAN AKIL DELİLİNİN DEĞERLENDİRİLMESİ.
- Authors
ATALAY, Sare Levin; TASLAMAN, Osman Caner
- Abstract
Reason has been regarded as a natural phenomenon in naturalist paradigm. Most of the philosophers of mind think that reason is the by-product of evolution and the necessary result of a complicated physical system such as brain. Accordingly, as the mysteries of brain are uncovered, reasoning process will be fully explained and by means of this knowledge an artificial intelligence which thinks like human brain does is going to be produced in the near future. However, reason is such a phenomenon that properties of which can not be reduced to matter and conflict with the basic principles of reductive materalism and naturalism. As a matter of fact every effort to naturalize reason eventually contributes to the refutation of naturalism, since it leads to a skepticism and jeopardizes the reliability of human reasoning. Certainly, this is not a new argument but it has became stronger and more sophisticated than ever in the light of contemporary debates in philosophy of mind. The purpose of this article is to explain with the help of “the argument from reason” how, indeed, aiming for naturalizing of reason makes naturalism to refute itself. Consequently the article argues that theism in lieu of naturalism is more reasonable concerning the existence of reason and founding the trust in reasoning.
- Publication
KADER: Kelam Araptyrmalary Dergisi, 2017, Vol 15, Issue 2, p362
- ISSN
1309-2030
- Publication type
Article
- DOI
10.18317/kader.311053