MANY INADEQUATE JUSTIFICATIONS OF METHODOLOGICAL NATURALISM

• Authors: Larmer Robert A.
• Languages of publication: EN

Abstracts

EN

Contrary to proponents’ claims, methodological naturalism is not metaphysically neutral. Consequently, its acceptance as a practice requires justification. Unfortunately for its advocates, attempts to justify it are failures. It cannot be defended as a definition, or a self-imposed limitation, of science, nor, more modestly, as an inductively justified commitment to natural causes. As a practice, it functions not to further scientific investigation, but rather to impose an explanatory straitjacket.

Keywords

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NOMOLOGICAL SCIENCE; HISTORICAL SCIENCE; INDUCTIVE GENERALIZATION

• Publisher: Institute of Philosophy of the Slovak Academy of Sciences and Institute of Philosophy of Academy of Sciences of Czech Republic
• Journal: Organon F. medzinárodný časopis pre analytickú filozofiu
• Year: 2019
• Volume: 26
• Issue: 1
• Pages: 5 - 24

Contributors

author

Larmer Robert A.

• Department of Philosophy, University of New Brunswick, 19 Macaulay Lane, Carleton Hall 211, Fredericton NB, E3B 5A3, Canada,

Identifiers

DOI

https://doi.org/10.31577/orgf.2019.26102