Subject Naturalism, Scientism and the Problem of Linguistic Meaning: Critical Remarks on Price's 'Naturalism without Representationalism'
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Naturalism without Scientism
Let us begin with naturalism itself. These days, most philosophers seem eager to regard themselves as naturalists, but this is possible only because there is so little agreement about what naturalism actually involves or requires. There is, of course, a straightforwardly (and self‐consciously) scientistic form of philosophical naturalism, which simply assumes that the claims of our best scienti...
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عنوان ژورنال: Análisis. Revista de investigación filosófica
سال: 2014
ISSN: 2386-8066
DOI: 10.26754/ojs_arif/a.rif.20141971