Since you don’t recommend reading Quine directly, what books / other resources would you recommend for someone who wants to read the main arguments for and against naturalism? My only knowledge of the subject comes from the sequences (and it seems like those mostly take it for granted).
If you feel you’re really not confident that people are made of atoms and so on, and you want an introduction to the standard debates over naturalism in mainstream philosophy, you can start with Ritchie’s Understanding Naturalism.
If you change your mind and want a quick and relatively readable tour from the man himself, try Quine’s From Stimulus to Science.
Can’t think of a succinct critique specifically of Quinean naturalism off hand. John McDowell articulates one in his Mind and World summarized here , but this text is not for the faint of heart. For a nice and relatively readable discussion of a couple of views of rationality, have a look at the chapter ‘Two conceptions of rationality’ in Hilary Putnam’s Reason Truth and History
Since you don’t recommend reading Quine directly, what books / other resources would you recommend for someone who wants to read the main arguments for and against naturalism? My only knowledge of the subject comes from the sequences (and it seems like those mostly take it for granted).
If you feel you’re really not confident that people are made of atoms and so on, and you want an introduction to the standard debates over naturalism in mainstream philosophy, you can start with Ritchie’s Understanding Naturalism.
If you change your mind and want a quick and relatively readable tour from the man himself, try Quine’s From Stimulus to Science.
Can’t think of a succinct critique specifically of Quinean naturalism off hand. John McDowell articulates one in his Mind and World summarized here , but this text is not for the faint of heart. For a nice and relatively readable discussion of a couple of views of rationality, have a look at the chapter ‘Two conceptions of rationality’ in Hilary Putnam’s Reason Truth and History