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Naturalism: Friends and Foes [PDF]

, 2000
The goal of this paper is to sketch a distinctive version of naturalism in the philosophy of science, both by tracing historical antecedents and by addressing contemporary ...
Pen Maddy, Maddy, Penelope
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Nature and Naturalism: The Relevance of Classical German Philosophy

, 2022
This chapter maps current scholarly debates on nature and naturalism in Classical German Philosophy. Whereas the period between Kant and Hegel is generally recognized as an inspiring source for contemporary concerns in areas such as social and political
Corti, Luca, Schülein, Johannes-Georg
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Representationalism, Metaphysics, Naturalism: Price, Horwich and Beyond [PDF]

, 2018
Both Huw Price and Paul Horwich see themselves as anti-representationalists and anti-metaphysicians, views that they also see as inspired by or as having affinities with Wittgenstein’s later philosophy.
Knowles, Jonathan
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On the Nature of Mistakes in Nature

Global Philosophy
Abstract Some things happen of necessity, others merely happen to occur – but are there things that happen to occur, but should not have?
Austin, Christopher J., Oderberg, David S., Hill, Jonathan   +2 more
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Naturalism and the Problem of Normativity [PDF]

, 2011
This dissertation explores the way in which normative facts create a problem for naturalist approaches to philosophy. How can lumpy scientific matter give rise to technicolour normativity?
TURP, MICHAEL-JOHN,DAVID, Turp, Michael-John David   +1 more
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Methodological and/or Ontological Naturalism

, 2006
The paper points to qualify more precisely the notion of naturalism in the sense used by Plantinga, dwelling upon the relationship between naturalism and true skepticism.
Corvi, Roberta, Roberta Corvi
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Science Friction: Phenomenology, Naturalism and Cognitive Science [PDF]

, 2013
Recent years have seen growing evidence of a fruitful engagement between phenomenology and cognitive science. This paper confronts an in-principle problem that stands in the way of this (perhaps unlikely) intellectual coalition, namely the fact that a ...
Wheeler, Michael
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Liberal Naturalism, Ontological Commitment and Explanation

, 2022
Liberal naturalism has been recently presented by several authors as the most credible form of philosophical naturalism. Generally speaking, it is the view according to which there are nonscientific entities, and related forms of inquiry, which ...
Morganti, Matteo
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On the Nature of Natural Selection

, 2018
Some philosophers, known as statisticalists, claim that the concept of natural selection, as it is normally presented in population genetics, is statistical in character and cannot be construed in causal terms. On the contrary, other philosophers, known as causalists, argue against the statistical view and reaffirm the causal interpretation of natural ...
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A Defense of Quinean Naturalism

, 2008
This paper argues that a naturalized epistemology of the kind presented by W.V. Quine preserves everything worthwhile in traditional epistemology. Arguments against Quinean naturalism by such writers as Laurence BonJour, Jaegwon Kim, Richard Rorty, Barry
Bergström, Lars
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