Scientific Challenges to Common Sense Philosophy - Paperback

by Rik Peels (Editor), Jeroen de Ridder (Editor), René Van Woudenberg (Editor)

This book features essays by scientists on topics related to common sense beliefs, including space, time, free will and identity, rationality, morality, and religious belief. Philosophers from the common sense tradition then explore the connection between common sense philosophy and debates in the empirical sciences.

Author Biography

Rik Peels is Assistant Professor of Philosophy at Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam. He is the author of Responsible Belief: A Theory in Ethics and Epistemology (2016), editor of Perspectives on Ignorance from Moral and Social Philosophy (Routledge, 2017), and co-editor of The Epistemic Dimensions of Ignorance (2016) and Scientism: Problems and Prospects (forthcoming).

Jeroen de Ridder is Associate Professor of Philosophy and NWO Vidi Research Fellow at Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam. He is co-editor of Scientism: Problems and Prospects (forthcoming) and The Future of Creation Order (forthcoming).

René van Woudenberg is Professor of Philosophy at Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam. He is the co-editor of The Cambridge Companion to Thomas Reid (2005) and Scientism: Problems and Prospects (forthcoming).