Add to ORKGQuine famously holds that “philosophy is continuous with natural science”. In order to fi nd out what exactly the point of this claim is, I take up one of his preferred phrases and trace it through his writings, i.e., the phrase “Science itself teaches that …”. Unlike Wittgenstein, Quine did not take much interest in determining what might be distinctive of philosophical investigations, or of the philosophical part of scientifi c investigations. I fi nd this indifference regrettable, and I take a fresh look at Quine’s metaphilosophy, trying to defuse his avowed naturalism by illustrating how little infl uence his naturalistic rhetoric has on the way he actually does philosophy. Over and above its attack on the analytic/synthetic distinction...
Scientific naturalism is the view that natural science should be our guide in metaphysical matters –...
During the past few decades, a radical shift has occurred in how philosophers conceive of the relati...
Quine’s naturalism has no room for a point of view outside science from which one might criticize sc...
In this essay it is shown that the imaginative art of scientific theorizing – at its technical best ...
W.V. Quine is a well-known proponent of naturalism, the view on which reality is described only in s...
This paper deals with the question whether science and philosophy are continuous, as Quine thought, ...
In this section, which forms part of my discussion of the relation and interaction between philosoph...
This is the Accepted Manuscript of a book chapter published by Routledge/CRC Press in The Routledge ...
W.V. Quine is arguably the intellectual father of contemporary naturalism, the idea that there is no...
Quine’s position is counted as a reductive naturalism. It overcomes both the traditional Cartesian-K...
Starting with the distinction between epistemological and ontological naturalism, this chapter focus...
Contemporary analytic philosophy is dominated by metaphilosophical naturalism, the view that philoso...
In this article I first sketch what I take to be two Quinean arguments for the continuity of philoso...
THESIS 7992In the philosophical literature of the past century few if any philosophers present a gre...
During the past few decades, a radical shift has occurred in how philosophers conceive of the relati...
Scientific naturalism is the view that natural science should be our guide in metaphysical matters –...
During the past few decades, a radical shift has occurred in how philosophers conceive of the relati...
Quine’s naturalism has no room for a point of view outside science from which one might criticize sc...
In this essay it is shown that the imaginative art of scientific theorizing – at its technical best ...
W.V. Quine is a well-known proponent of naturalism, the view on which reality is described only in s...
This paper deals with the question whether science and philosophy are continuous, as Quine thought, ...
In this section, which forms part of my discussion of the relation and interaction between philosoph...
This is the Accepted Manuscript of a book chapter published by Routledge/CRC Press in The Routledge ...
W.V. Quine is arguably the intellectual father of contemporary naturalism, the idea that there is no...
Quine’s position is counted as a reductive naturalism. It overcomes both the traditional Cartesian-K...
Starting with the distinction between epistemological and ontological naturalism, this chapter focus...
Contemporary analytic philosophy is dominated by metaphilosophical naturalism, the view that philoso...
In this article I first sketch what I take to be two Quinean arguments for the continuity of philoso...
THESIS 7992In the philosophical literature of the past century few if any philosophers present a gre...
During the past few decades, a radical shift has occurred in how philosophers conceive of the relati...
Scientific naturalism is the view that natural science should be our guide in metaphysical matters –...
During the past few decades, a radical shift has occurred in how philosophers conceive of the relati...
Quine’s naturalism has no room for a point of view outside science from which one might criticize sc...