Abstract

What aspects of philosophical naturalism might be deemed valuable for reasons that are specifically religious? Or, what specifically religious values might be conferred by a naturalistic philosophy? How can we assess the question of philosophical naturalism’s religious availability? For that matter, how is it even plausible to connect religious values with naturalism, which, many persons would say, entails by its very definition a repudiation of the supernatural, the transcendent, the spiritual—and, therefore, the religious?