Add to ORKGScientific naturalism is the view that natural science should be our guide in metaphysical matters – the ontology we should accept is the ontology that turns out to be required by science. Quine is often regarded as the doyen of scientific naturalists, in this sense. In this paper I argue that Quine's own views on ontological commitment, and on the relation of philosophy to science, in fact provide little support for naturalism in this form. On the contrary, they favour a view much closer to that of Carnap's 'Empiricism, Semantics and Ontology' – a view more pluralist than naturalism about ontological commitment, and more deflationist than naturalism about what is at stake. I show that this view is not undermined by Quine's well-known criti...
Starting with the distinction between epistemological and ontological naturalism, this chapter focus...
Starting with the distinction between epistemological and ontological naturalism, this chapter focus...
Much of the ontology made in the analytic tradition of philosophy nowadays is founded on some of Qui...
Scientific naturalism is the view that natural science should be our guide in metaphysical matters –...
W.V. Quine is a well-known proponent of naturalism, the view on which reality is described only in s...
W.V. Quine is a well-known proponent of naturalism, the view on which reality is described only in s...
W.V. Quine is a well-known proponent of naturalism, the view on which reality is described only in s...
In this paper I return to the mid-20th-century debate between Quine and Carnap on the status of meta...
In this paper I return to the mid-20th-century debate between Quine and Carnap on the status of meta...
In this paper I return to the mid-20th-century debate between Quine and Carnap on the status of meta...
In this paper I return to the mid-20th-century debate between Quine and Carnap on the status of meta...
Huw Price has argued that naturalistic philosophy inevitably leads to a deflationary approach to ont...
Huw Price has argued that naturalistic philosophy inevitably leads to a deflationary approach to ont...
Huw Price has argued that naturalistic philosophy inevitably leads to a deflationary approach to ont...
Huw Price has argued that naturalistic philosophy inevitably leads to a deflationary approach to ont...
Starting with the distinction between epistemological and ontological naturalism, this chapter focus...
Starting with the distinction between epistemological and ontological naturalism, this chapter focus...
Much of the ontology made in the analytic tradition of philosophy nowadays is founded on some of Qui...
Scientific naturalism is the view that natural science should be our guide in metaphysical matters –...
W.V. Quine is a well-known proponent of naturalism, the view on which reality is described only in s...
W.V. Quine is a well-known proponent of naturalism, the view on which reality is described only in s...
W.V. Quine is a well-known proponent of naturalism, the view on which reality is described only in s...
In this paper I return to the mid-20th-century debate between Quine and Carnap on the status of meta...
In this paper I return to the mid-20th-century debate between Quine and Carnap on the status of meta...
In this paper I return to the mid-20th-century debate between Quine and Carnap on the status of meta...
In this paper I return to the mid-20th-century debate between Quine and Carnap on the status of meta...
Huw Price has argued that naturalistic philosophy inevitably leads to a deflationary approach to ont...
Huw Price has argued that naturalistic philosophy inevitably leads to a deflationary approach to ont...
Huw Price has argued that naturalistic philosophy inevitably leads to a deflationary approach to ont...
Huw Price has argued that naturalistic philosophy inevitably leads to a deflationary approach to ont...
Starting with the distinction between epistemological and ontological naturalism, this chapter focus...
Starting with the distinction between epistemological and ontological naturalism, this chapter focus...
Much of the ontology made in the analytic tradition of philosophy nowadays is founded on some of Qui...