Naturalism Beyond the Limits of Science: How Scientific Methodology Can and Should Shape Philosophical Theorizing Emery Nina
Naturalism Beyond the Limits of Science: How Scientific Methodology Can and Should Shape Philosophical Theorizing Emery Nina Philosophers and scientists both ask questions about what the world is…
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Naturalism Beyond the Limits of Science: How Scientific Methodology Can and Should Shape Philosophical Theorizing Emery Nina
Philosophers and scientists both ask questions about what the world is like. How should they? How do these fields interact with one another?
According to methodological naturalism, when coming up with theories about what the world is like, philosophers should, whenever possible, make use of the same methodology that is deployed by scientists. Naturalism Beyond the Limits of Science investigates an approach to these questions called methodological naturalism. Although many contemporary philosophers have implicit commitments that lead straightforwardly to methodological naturalism, few have a clear understanding of how widespread and disruptive methodological naturalism promises to be for the field.
By way of a series of case studies involving laws of nature, composition, time and modality, and drawing on historical and contemporary scientific developments including the