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The Journal of the Academy of Metaphysical Naturalism1 is for the purpose of discussing the ontology of the designations of materialism and specifically those of metaphysical naturalism, ontological naturalism, philosophical naturalism. This page of this website is to introduce the reader to the Journal, and to provide a Table of Contents to that site. [See at bottom of page.]
Descriptions, definitions, and denotations by various other sources confuse the problem of the designation of the concept, with specific and semantic differences in their use of the words. Except for comparisons to the other forms of naturalism, i.e., methodological, scientific, epistemological, ethical, et. al., this Journal is not interested in denoting those forms.
It is, however, interested in finding a correspondence theory2 that is not pluralistic or dualistic, yet which acknowledges that mental phenomena such as "mind" are acceptable, not as a different form of matter, but of (perhaps) a non-transient organically created energy made of the very matter which traditional naturalism contents is all that exists. If "mind" is non-existent, then a cake made of its constituent matter also does not exist, and for the very same and identical reason. But they do exist, for the same and identical reason: the mind and the cake are greater than the simple sum of their parts. The matter in each goes through a change in the process of "becoming" what the process requires it become.
[The actual Journal was formerly called The Academy of Metaphysical Naturalism Blogger. This page is to introduce the reader to the Journal. Although the first Journal entry is specifically that of Saturday, September 5, 2009, entries in the Blogger go much further back. A quick check of its search engine will show many references to "naturalism" and to many attendent subjects.]
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