Naturalistic Entheogenics

Moderately naturalistic metaphysics

The present paper discusses different approaches to metaphysics and defends a specific, non-deflationary approach that nevertheless qualifies as scientifically-grounded and, consequently, as acceptable from the naturalistic viewpoint. By critically assessing some recent work on science and metaphysics, we argue that such a sophisticated form of naturalism, which preserves the autonomy of metaph...

Minimally Naturalistic Artificial Intelligence

The rapid advancement of machine learning techniques has re-energized research into general artificial intelligence. While the idea of domain-agnostic meta-learning is appealing, this emerging field must come to terms with its relationship to human cognition and the statistics and structure of the tasks humans perform. The position of this article is that only by aligning our agents’ abilities ...

Naturalistic Epistemologies and Normativity

The Anti-naturalistic Fallacy

The naturalistic fallacy and Hume’s ‘law’ are frequently appealed to for the purpose of drawing limits around the scope of scientific inquiry into ethics and morality. These two objections are shown to be without force. Thus two highly influential obstacles are removed from naturalizing ethics. The relative merits of moral skepticism and moral realism are compared. Moral skepticism and some for...

Naturalistic Decision Making

OBJECTIVE This article describes the origins and contributions of the naturalistic decision making (NDM) research approach. BACKGROUND NDM research emerged in the 1980s to study how people make decisions in real-world settings. METHOD The findings and methods used by NDM researchers are presented along with their implications. RESULTS The NDM framework emphasizes the role of experience in...