TY - JOUR AB - Can our caring about truth be rooted in “relaxed” naturalism? I argue that it cannot. In order to care about truth we need the universe to be capable of providing non-adventitious good, which relaxed naturalism cannot do. I use Michael Lynch’s work as a springboard to showing this claim. AD - George Fox University, Newberg, Oregon, USA AU - McLeod-Harrison, Mark DO - 10.5840/forphil20121715 KW - belief & doubt; Lynch, Michael; naturalism; truth; realism; LA - en M1 - 1 M3 - Article PY - 2012 RN - Alston, William P. A Realist Conception of Truth. Ithaca: Cornell University Press, 1996. Goetz, Stewart, and Charles Taliaferro. Naturalism. Grand Rapids: Eerdmans, 2008. Lynch, Michael P. True to Life: Why Truth Matters. Cambridge, MA: MIT Press, 2004. Lynch, Michael P. Truth as One and Many. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2009. Lynch, Michael P. Truth in Context. Cambridge, MA: MIT Press, 1998. McDowell, John. Mind and World. Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press, 1996. SN - 1426-1898 (paper) 2353-7043 (online) SP - 89–103 ST - Relaxed Naturalism and Caring About the Truth T2 - Forum Philosophicum TI - Relaxed Naturalism and Caring About the Truth UR - http://search.ebscohost.com/login.aspx?direct=true&db=a9h&AN=87003051&lang=pl&site=ehost-live http://www.pdcnet.org/pdc/bvdb.nsf/purchase?openform&fp=forphil&id=forphil_2012_0017_0001_0089_0103 VL - 17 ID - 11 ER -