(Ebook) The Epistemological Skyhook: Determinism, Naturalism, and Self-Defeat by Jim Slagle ISBN 9781138651425, 1138651427

(Ebook) The Epistemological Skyhook: Determinism, Naturalism, and Self-Defeat by Jim Slagle ISBN 9781138651425, 1138651427

Throughout philosophical history, there has been arecurring argument to the effect that determinism, naturalism, or bothare self-referentially incoherent. By accepting determinism ornaturalism, one allegedly acquires a reason to reject determinism ornaturalism. The Epistemological Skyhook brings together, for the firsttime, the principal expressions of this argument, focusing primarily onthe last 150 years. This book addresses the versions of this argument aspresented by Arthur Lovejoy, A.E. Taylor, Kurt Gödel, C.S. Lewis,Norman Malcolm, Karl Popper, J.R. Lucas, William Hasker, Thomas Nagel,Alvin Plantinga, and others, along with the objections presented bytheir many detractors. It concludes by presenting a new version of theargument that synthesizes the best aspects of the others while alsorendering the argument immune to some of the most significant objectionsmade to it.