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Naturalized Human Epistemology is Social Epistemology

open access: yes, 2022
Our epistemic lives are ones of deep social dependence. Social epistemology is often understood as a subfield that stands apart from, but is compatible with, traditional individualistic approaches to epistemology.
O'Rourke-Friel, Molly
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"Positive" Results Increase Down the Hierarchy of the Sciences [PDF]

open access: yes, 2010
The hypothesis of a Hierarchy of the Sciences with physical sciences at the top, social sciences at the bottom, and biological sciences in-between is nearly 200 years old.
Daniele Fanelli   +3 more
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Jizz and the joy of pattern recognition : virtuosity, discipline and the agency of insight in UK naturalists’ arts of seeing [PDF]

open access: yes, 2011
Approaches to visual skilling from anthropology and STS have tended to highlight the forces of discipline and control in understanding how shared visual accounts of the world are created in the face of potential differences brought about by multi ...
Ellis, Rebecca, Rebecca Ellis
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Should religious naturalists promote a naturalistic religion? [PDF]

open access: yes, 1998
Religious naturalism refers here to a view of reality, and it will be contrasted with versions of supernaturalism and of atheistic naturalism. Naturalistic religion refers to certain varieties of religion, especially some inspired by the universality of ...
Drees, Willem, Willem B. Drees
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Philosophy of Social Science: Naturalism and Anti-Naturalism

open access: yes, 2015
Naturalism is still facing a strong opposition in the philosophy of social science, by influential scholars who argue that philosophical analysis must be autonomous from scientific investigation.
F. Guala
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Shaping science with the past : textbooks, history, and the disciplining of genetics

open access: yes, 2008
Science is generally not thought of as being deeply historiographical. Although it is clear that scientists frequently write about history in their work — that, for example, they identify the significance of an advance by situating it historically, or ...
Skopek, Jeffrey M, Jeffrey Skopek
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Reclaiming Naturalized Critical Realism : Response to McWherter [PDF]

open access: yes, 2017
This article responds to McWherter’s detailed critique of my assessment of Roy Bhaskar’s method of transcendental argumentation in chapter four of my Naturalizing Critical Realist Social Ontology (2013).
Kaidesoja, Tuukka Juhani
core   +1 more source

Taking the naturalistic turn seriously : a critique of naturalized philosophy of science [PDF]

open access: yes, 2003
This thesis attempts to assess the viability of arguing for realism from a naturalistic perspective. It demonstrates that extant attempts to carry out this project fail to establish realism as a better explanation of science than various antirealist ...
Good, Philip Graham Ashton
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On the Prospects for African Philosophy in Australia

open access: yesAustralian Journal of Social Issues, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT This paper grapples with the situation of people of African descent in Australia by working through the constitution of the body of academic philosophy in the country. It contends with the parochialism of the Australian philosophical community and the prospects for the cultivation of greater pluralism. Taking African philosophy as one possible
Bryan Mukandi
wiley   +1 more source

Embedding Chemistry and Pharmacy Into Sustainability

open access: yesAngewandte Chemie International Edition, EarlyView.
Chemistry and pharmacy provide products and processes that are indispensable for our high living standard. To understand their relationship with sustainability is important to allow them to contribute to sustainability in a sustainable manner. An integrated overview of green, circular, and sustainable chemistry and pharmacy is given and how they have t
Klaus Kümmerer
wiley   +1 more source

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